Here it is:http://www.captainsim.com/products/r001/index.htmlLooks decent

Here it is:http://www.captainsim.com/products/r001/index.htmlLooks decent

If I am using real world weather and I am travelling from KSAN (Sand Diego) to KLGA (New York) would it poll the stations ahead of me and get the real world weather and paint the screen or is it just a gimmick?Anyone knows?Manny

I bought the CS Weather Radar this morning and still can't get it to work after four hours of trying all kinds of things. All I get is a black panel popping up with nothing on it. I didn't expect it to be brilliant, although I did expect it to work at least in some fashion on the default FSX aircraft at the very least. But it doesn't even do that.When I installed it in a couple of aircraft, it really messed them up too, including making most of the numbers disappear from the Mode Control Panel on the default FSX 737. It even stopped the Flight Management Computer's CDU panel from displaying in the Ariane 737 when I installed it to that.I've tried repairing FSX, uninstalling the weather radar and reinstalling it, re-downloading the program and reinstalling it, reinstalling Direct X, changing graphics driver settings, manually tweaking the panel config entries it makes, seeing if the gauge was missing, making sure it all unzipped properly. I even tried reinstalling Winzip.And I've tried installing the radar into the Ariane 737, the default FSX 737-800, the default FSX 747-400, the AS Twin Otter, the CLS 747-200 and 300, the Flight 1 Cessna 441, the UIVER DC-2 - it doesn't work on any of them, and most of them it causes other problems with too, so it's not simply a case of it not working, it's actually a hindrance.I've put a ticket in about it to Captain Sim, and posed a question about it on their forum too. I'll keep you posted on what happens.'works with any FSX aircraft' - yeah right. :( Before anyone says it, yes I know some aircraft have an inhibitor which prevents radar emissions when weight is on the wheels, as might be the case in that pic. But that's not the problem, it looks like that in the air too.Al

I already have the wx500 weather radar system, that works pretty much like the one adertised here.But what is 1 million times better is the weather GUI from ASA from HIFI SOftware. This is what i would recomend for any one looking for inflight weather info.I dont like all those weather radar systems where you have to start adjsuting radar settings in order to tell if you seeing thunderstorm or a mountain.With ASA Gui you can see the weather in very colourfull top down view. I would only recpmend ASA for those with second monitor cause its best if you can stick ASA weather GUI on second monitor.NO MORE WEATHER RADAR FOR ME, when i can see actuall weather with ASA.REX version2 also advertises features similar to ASA but i only got REX version1, which has no realtime weather display.And you dont need to install ASA GUI in every a/c its just another windows app

I dont like all those weather radar systems where you have to start adjsuting radar settings in order to tell if you seeing thunderstorm or a mountain.

Fair enough if that is what you are happy with. But I actually do want that adjustment capability for the realism it imbues, since adjusting the radar azimuth would give you data on whether it was worth trying to climb over, or go under any Cumulonimbus build ups. That's what the CS Weather Radar offers (or at least would do if it was working), and that's what I wanted, rather than some magical 'all seeing' top down view. I don't want a magic top down view, I want the challenge of figuring it out from a radar return, as you would have to in real life on occasion.Al

AlThat's a shame it's not working in any aircraft for you. I have it installed in about 6 a/c so far with no problems whatsoever... payware and a few default.Hopefully you will get some help from them soon, it really is a great tool.Regards,Tim

I bought the CS Weather Radar this morning and still can't get it to work after four hours of trying all kinds of things. All I get is a black panel popping up with nothing on it. I didn't expect it to be brilliant, although I did expect it to work at least in some fashion on the default FSX aircraft at the very least. But it doesn't even do that.When I installed it in a couple of aircraft, it really messed them up too, including making most of the numbers disappear from the Mode Control Panel on the default FSX 737. It even stopped the Flight Management Computer's CDU panel from displaying in the Ariane 737 when I installed it to that.I've tried repairing FSX, uninstalling the weather radar and reinstalling it, re-downloading the program and reinstalling it, reinstalling Direct X, changing graphics driver settings, manually tweaking the panel config entries it makes, seeing if the gauge was missing, making sure it all unzipped properly. I even tried reinstalling Winzip.And I've tried installing the radar into the Ariane 737, the default FSX 737-800, the default FSX 747-400, the AS Twin Otter, the CLS 747-200 and 300, the Flight 1 Cessna 441, the UIVER DC-2 - it doesn't work on any of them, and most of them it causes other problems with too, so it's not simply a case of it not working, it's actually a hindrance.I've put a ticket in about it to Captain Sim, and posed a question about it on their forum too. I'll keep you posted on what happens.'works with any FSX aircraft' - yeah right. :( Before anyone says it, yes I know some aircraft have an inhibitor which prevents radar emissions when weight is on the wheels, as might be the case in that pic. But that's not the problem, it looks like that in the air too.Al

It seems like the gauge referenced in the 'panel.cfg' file for the weather gauge is not being found. Where do the CS files get installed? Hopefully the FSX 'gauge' directory.If they are there try copying them into the aircraft's panel directory.

Fair enough if that is what you are happy with. But I actually do want that adjustment capability for the realism it imbues, since adjusting the radar azimuth would give you data on whether it was worth trying to climb over, or go under any Cumulonimbus build ups. That's what the CS Weather Radar offers (or at least would do if it was working), and that's what I wanted, rather than some magical 'all seeing' top down view. I don't want a magic top down view, I want the challenge of figuring it out from a radar return, as you would have to in real life on occasion.Al

You have a problem local because it works just fine here ;-)

Okay, got it working. For anyone experiencing the same difficulties, here's what I did:1 Reinstalled the graphics card drivers2 Reinstalled both FSX SP1 and SP2 (I think it was reinstalling these which did it, but can't be sure, since I was trying all kinds of things to solve the problem)3 Reinstalled Direct X with the very latest download4 Reinstalled the Weather RadarSome observations:Despite CS claims, it works on most, not all FSX aircraft. I installed it on the Ariane 737NG, but the gauge just won't show up in the sim, nor on the FSX menu. I thought this might be because there is no 2D panel to hang it on, but the Aerosoft PBY Catalina doesn't have a 2D panel and the CS radar installs in that okay. However, Aerosoft's own Flight Keeper won't install into their Catalina, and that uses a similar 'installer utility' to the CS Weather Radar, so I imagine this sort of thing is going to start cropping up more and more as developers ditch the 2D panel, which many appear to be doing.I tried to copy the text bit from the Catalina's panel config file into the Ariane 737's panel config file to get the radar to show up on the Ariane, but having done so the option to select the weather radar refuses to show up on the FSX menu for the 737, which is a bit of a bummer since a weather radar is something the Ariane 737 is more likely to need than a Catalina would.The Mode Control Panel on the default FSX 737 is still busted from when I tried installing the weather radar into it earlier on, and most buttons on the default FSX 747-400 now no longer work in either 2D or 3D VC mode following the installation of the radar gauge, and I do suspect it is the gauge at fault (or at least something it may cause by dint of being installed), since both the 737 and 747 were fine until right before installation.Problems aside, the weather radar itself is pretty cool and good fun to play with. For the fun it can add to an FSX cockpit, it probably was worth the price. It appears to work well if you can get it to install in a cockpit and doesn't really hamper frame rates, but clearly the installer utility is not capable of putting it into every aircraft you may have in FSX. So keep that in mind if you want it for one particular aircraft, and maybe ask someone who also has that aircraft to try installing the radar gauge, to see if it will go in without any issues before you part with your cash. I'm going to keep trying stuff to get the weather radar into the Ariane 737, as it is one I would really like a radar on, and if anyone has any suggestions of how that might be done, then I'll be happy to hear them. Similarly, I'd like to know if anyone has managed to get the Flight Keeper ACARs to go into the Ariane FSX 737NG (which I can't seem to make happen without it going haywire), because that's another gauge I'd like in the Ariane Boeing.Cheers for the suggestions from McCrash by the way, which in the end were not needed, but I appreciate you trying to help.Al

TA-DA!Manual installation with a tweak to the config file and here's the Weather Radar in the Ariane FSX NG:So that's the last problem sorted. Happy bunny now :( Al

Fair enough if that is what you are happy with. But I actually do want that adjustment capability for the realism it imbues, since adjusting the radar azimuth would give you data on whether it was worth trying to climb over, or go under any Cumulonimbus build ups. That's what the CS Weather Radar offers (or at least would do if it was working), and that's what I wanted, rather than some magical 'all seeing' top down view. I don't want a magic top down view, I want the challenge of figuring it out from a radar return, as you would have to in real life on occasion.Al

Al, I have the RealityXP weather radar for FSX and it works perrrfect and looks almost exactly like Captain Sim's. I don't see what is the advantage of Captain Sim's over the bug free RealityXP. Maybe you can fill me in.

Al, I have the RealityXP weather radar for FSX and it works perrrfect and looks almost exactly like Captain Sim's. I don't see what is the advantage of Captain Sim's over the bug free RealityXP. Maybe you can fill me in.

I was wondering the same thing.However, after attending a seminar a few weeks ago on the merits of radar/stormscope/ and nexrad composite (what is fed on xm radio to weather units like the Garmin 496) I really wish someone would do a xm weather simulator for fs..! Check out my video-landing at Kaiz (click my name-then my videos). That is where it is at now!!! For me a no go without this capability (and I have a stormscope too).

Al, I have the RealityXP weather radar for FSX and it works perrrfect and looks almost exactly like Captain Sim's. I don't see what is the advantage of Captain Sim's over the bug free RealityXP. Maybe you can fill me in.

Well, I wouldn't say it was 'buggy' in the sense of the gauge itself not working, just that the installer didn't seem to like my FSX installation for some mystery reason. Having said that, I did have to re-install lots of stuff to get it up and running. As far as I'm aware there wasn't much wrong with my FSX, so I'd certainly suspect there are some glitches somewhere that need smoothing out, at least as far as the installer goes. I daresay I won't be alone in having difficulties with it and there are one or two people posting on the CS forum about issues regarding it not finding their aircraft list, but its early days, so that's not too surprising.It's half the price of the Reality XP one, so there's a plus right there, assuming once the gauge is in there it keeps going, and from what I've seen in the short time I've played around with it, it does seem alright and stable once in there with not much detriment to frame rates. My reason for purchasing it was not really the price however, more a case of the fact that I kind of like to spread purchases of FS stuff around, to support lots of developers. Captain Sim occasionally comes in for a bit of a hammering from people on forums, but I've never had a problem with anything I've bought from them until today, so I've not really got any reason to dislike them or not buy anything from them. I don't particularly like their support system, but then again, I've never really had much call to use it, so to complain about it would be like complaining about a hole in your boat that isn't there.The CS radar gauge does seem fairly flexible in what you can do with it. I installed it in the Virtual Cockpit of the Ariane 737NG in place of one of the DUs earlier on, just to see if it could be done, which it can. The shape of its screen lent itself quite well to doing that as it is a two-part gauge with the surrounding panel bit and the actual screen being separate gauges. It worked okay with a bit of faffing about to determine which number related to which display on the flight deck and it was quite entertaining to have it on one of the DUs in the 737 NG in between the two FMC CDUs (I put the Flight Keeper ACARS on another DU too and that looked quite cool with a cockpit full of fancy toys), but I suspect I will stick to having both ACARS and the Weather Radar as 2D panels, because they do end up rather small when slotted into a DU's position.It probably does exactly the same thing as the Reality XP one, so I guess it's a case of one or the other, unless someone brings out a totally realistic Stormscope or a working APG-68 (unlikely I would have thought). Shame really, you could have hours of fun locking up people on VATSIM and gate-stealing their radar beams. :( Perhaps we should petition Ariane or PMDG to do a Poseidon version of the 800NG, stick a realistic jammer on it and an APS-137; that'd make you popular at a VATSIM fly-in. :( Al

QUOTE (Chock @ May 30 2009, 06:40 PM) *Fair enough if that is what you are happy with. But I actually do want that adjustment capability for the realism it imbues, since adjusting the radar azimuth would give you data on whether it was worth trying to climb over, or go under any Cumulonimbus build ups. That's what the CS Weather Radar offers (or at least would do if it was working), and that's what I wanted, rather than some magical 'all seeing' top down view. I don't want a magic top down view, I want the challenge of figuring it out from a radar return, as you would have to in real life on occasion.Ok i admit it less realistic to be able to see top down view of real weather, lacks the challenge of weather sniffing.But ASA weather view is more for folks like me who prefer to see real weather with minimum effort.

actually it's not totally unrealistic to have a top down weather view, it's kind of like what datalinked weather radars do, although there aren't many civilian ones at the momentAl