"Real-world weather"

[Timmy74]

Hi Guys,

Sorry to bother you all but was wondering if anyone else is having issues with "Real-word weather" in their FSX???

Of late, it seems that no matter where I start i get "50 mi clear skies"....??? I use to get all different types of weather. Now it just seems I get the same ALL the time.

Any tips for me please? I have REX installed but am confused how its weather engine works? What do i choose under the "weather" tile in the FSX window? Also, if i start FSX through REX will "Shades" still work?

Kind regards.

Tim...

[Adrian Brausch]

I have also wondered the same thing and would be curious to if anyone has any solutions !

[Triford]

QUOTE (Timmy74 @ Apr 18 2014,10:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Guys,

Sorry to bother you all but was wondering if anyone else is having issues with "Real-word weather" in their FSX???

Of late, it seems that no matter where I start i get "50 mi clear skies"....??? I use to get all different types of weather. Now it just seems I get the same ALL the time.

Any tips for me please? I have REX installed but am confused how its weather engine works? What do i choose under the "weather" tile in the FSX window? Also, if i start FSX through REX will "Shades" still work?

Kind regards.

Tim...

Heya I believe Microsoft pulled the plug on it. Grab yourself active sky next its pretty impresive

[Adrian Brausch]

ah thankye sir,..that would make sense..

[Bazza]

Try google, there a lot of threads on this matter.......

[Ian Warren]

Seems Microsoft is pulling the plug on every thing .... they may have to change the name to simply "Micro" hardly anything left to see

[Timmy74]

Thanks guys. I thought it was just me. I will do some surfing on this issue and drop a line over at REX to see if they can answer my question about "Shades".

Kind regards.

Tim...

[towerguy]

it probably doesn't help with the bullsh1t method the Met service uses with the metars now. When we used to input them in the tower we could code the distance we could actually see out the window i.e if the vis was 50km we put 50km, if it was only 12km that's what we put and over a space of time you see the distance go from 50, 35, 20 to 12 km and you'd know the weather was closing in and it probably wasn't a good bet to send out a new solo x-country later that afternoon. Now in order to fit into the "money saving automated system" everything 10km or over is 9999 so means absolutely nothing. Times were when the system was there to provide a SERVICE to aviation, now it's just there to gouge as much money out of aviation as it can, and they call it progress - bunch of bollocks! Just bean counters that have no aviation sympathy or experience.
Rant over!

[NZ255]

QUOTE (towerguy @ Apr 19 2014,10:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

it probably doesn't help with the bullsh1t method the Met service uses with the metars now. When we used to input them in the tower we could code the distance we could actually see out the window i.e if the vis was 50km we put 50km, if it was only 12km that's what we put and over a space of time you see the distance go from 50, 35, 20 to 12 km and you'd know the weather was closing in and it probably wasn't a good bet to send out a new solo x-country later that afternoon. Now in order to fit into the "money saving automated system" everything 10km or over is 9999 so means absolutely nothing. Times were when the system was there to provide a SERVICE to aviation, now it's just there to gouge as much money out of aviation as it can, and they call it progress - bunch of bollocks! Just bean counters that have no aviation sympathy or experience.
Rant over!

How did you gauge the vis distance? Points of interests?

[tomkilpatrick]

Probably just pick a point of known distance and judge from there using other POKDs?

[Ian Warren]

Forget what real world has to say it dose not correctly do exactly what it dose since the terrain and measure equip will change so dramatically within New Zealand, the best example would be across the alps - Christchurch to Hokitika - round about 140km in a straight line BUT it cannot be reproduced in FSX.

[Sonnyj]

I use freeware FSREALWX Lite
http://www.fsrealwx.net/index.php/downloads/betas

Seems to work pretty good. No noticealbe FPS drop.

[AlisterC]

I use fsrealwx lite myself for FSX and really like it (the more recent Beta version just crashes on my system)

[Sonnyj]

QUOTE (AlisterC @ Apr 19 2014,1:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I use fsrealwx lite myself for FSX and really like it (the more recent Beta version just crashes on my system)

Yeah, I also tried the new beta version and went back to original

[omitchell]

Only issue I have is I look out my window, see a nice day, load up FS, update real weather, go the the airport and it's raining...

[emfrat]

I have fsrealwx lite and am happy with it...the frame rate hit depends on the amount of weather, combined with the amount of autogen trees, but on the whole it is acceptable. I just alter the view so I am not looking at the trees.
I usually check with http://www.metservice.com/national/home to see what to expect, and it has always been a pretty close match.
I want to get some pics of Ian's famous North-West Arch, but no luck so far. I suppose I will just have to keep on simming until one turns up (sigh) - but someone's got to do it.

[SA227]

QUOTE

it probably doesn't help with the bullsh1t method the Met service uses with the metars now. When we used to input them in the tower we could code the distance we could actually see out the window i.e if the vis was 50km we put 50km, if it was only 12km that's what we put and over a space of time you see the distance go from 50, 35, 20 to 12 km and you'd know the weather was closing in and it probably wasn't a good bet to send out a new solo x-country later that afternoon. Now in order to fit into the "money saving automated system" everything 10km or over is 9999 so means absolutely nothing. Times were when the system was there to provide a SERVICE to aviation, now it's just there to gouge as much money out of aviation as it can, and they call it progress - bunch of bollocks! Just bean counters that have no aviation sympathy or experience.
Rant over![/quote]

You forgot lack of gusts, and inaccurate cloud bases. The only thing I trust off an auto is the temp and QNH, been caught out too many times to believe the rest

[Sonnyj]

Re FSrealWX lite - I understand that if I set the weather metar search option in FSWXlite to Vatsim, not NOAA I get a coverage of 33 NZ metars. Not the NOAA big 3 - AA,CH,WN.

Cloud layering, icing , wet runway after rain has moved on, etc. Suits me fine. :-).