[VATSIM weather on X-Plane]

I cant even get the python plugin to show, so I suspect that is the problem off the top.

D:\Steam/steamapps/common/X-Plane 11/Resources/plugins/PythonInterface/win.xpl : Error Code = 126 : The specified module could not be found.

going to try to redo the python interface but thats what is giving me most of the problem

[VATSIM weather on X-Plane]

Trying to find the best way to do this, but the recommended option of using the NOAA plugin doesn't seem to work because I cant seem to get Sandy's python plugin to work. If someone has an easier way or can help me with getting the NOAA plugin working , I'd be much appreciated.

[Introductions]

Good day everyone! I would like to introduce myself as a new member of the community.

I am Bryan Bartlett, living south of Brisbane, Australia, and have 0 experience with aviation, but I am willing to learn.

Finding this community was a bit of a travel in its own right.  I have never done flight simulators before, and got interested watching a certain YouTuber. As much as his videos were mostly about trolling or messing with others, what I did take out of it was that there was a community out there actually trying to be realistic in displaying both pilots and ATC, and I thought.. that is awesome. I think I would like to be a part of that.

Downloaded FSX, went looking around, and found the community this YouTuber was a part of, to find out that, hey.. that guy hasn't spoken to them in 3 years and his videos were really not what Flight Sims should be about. They welcomed me to stay and recommended I switch to X-Plane 11 instead. Ok, managed to get Steam to give me a refund, put it to XP11.. and went through the tutorials, try to teach myself how the simple Seahawk worked.

Then I was getting annoyed with the seemingly nonsensical taxi instructions the built in ATC was giving me to taxi at the Archerfield Airport. I mean, the directions seemed to be having me travel up a grass landing strip, to turn around at the top and come all the way back down on a parallel landing strip, to get to a runway that my initial position was right next to and all I needed to do was actually taxi forward on the paved part instead of the grass.

Asked for help in the discord community I had found, and was told.. yea, the ATC sucks, here you should really look at VATSIM.

So I looked, and was sold on the idea that the community actually offers training modules for those wanting to learn. That is amazing.  I've just finished the P1 part, got 80% on the exam, and look foward to starting on the P2 part.

Anyway, me in a nutshell. Hope to see you all around in the skies, and if you see me, treat me gentle, I am a noob