don't take me serious here just wanted to show what a difficult approach the pilot's had to face with.enjoy

Very cool. Love the sound of those old engines. :)Rain effect would be awesome indeed. But PMDG said that they've run out of animations, and it would simply not be possible. I dunno why btw. And also, it would be a very big recourse hog. Perhaps a rain effect would be possible in XPlane 10? Who knows...

Compared to some of the approaches I've seen in videos, and the ones I've shot, that one's cake....and it's not going to happen.

Anyway, the rain effect on FSX it's worst than not having it.

Compared to some of the approaches I've seen in videos, and the ones I've shot, that one's cake....and it's not going to happen.

yes, i am not complaining, really am not, but just wanted to show that sometimes it could be very important. thanks.

No to the rain, yes to the frames per second.

That is one hell of a head wind!

That is one hell of a head wind!

that's actually happened to be a cross wind(;

I kinda wish the video from my flight on Sunday turned out. I flew through some rain, and it was getting darker, so I flipped on the landing light and you could see bright streaks of light heading towards the light. Looking straight ahead out the windscreen, you couldn't see a thing. There was no evidence it was even raining. Even cooler was the effect the strobes had on the rain. It was like flying through frozen spots of light.I'm not saying you'll never see rain on the windscreen when flying, but it's a lot less obvious than you'd think. It's not like driving a car in the rain at all.

I kinda wish the video from my flight on Sunday turned out. I flew through some rain, and it was getting darker, so I flipped on the landing light and you could see bright streaks of light heading towards the light. Looking straight ahead out the windscreen, you couldn't see a thing. There was no evidence it was even raining. Even cooler was the effect the strobes had on the rain. It was like flying through frozen spots of light.I'm not saying you'll never see rain on the windscreen when flying, but it's a lot less obvious than you'd think. It's not like driving a car in the rain at all.

did you fly in a cessna 172? great story, i wish i could have gone through this experience.

It's evident, even audible. It forms streams of water going up and outward across the windscreen. The droplets blur the windscreen. It's obvious why aircraft have some sort of rain removal. The G550 was certified without blowers after production. We 1 550 with windscreen blowers and 2 without. FAA is convinced that the rain repellant baked onto the windscreen is good enough. Works well like rainx.

So because I let people know the facts that you're not going to see rain effects on the NGX, I get -2 on my post...really? Grow up kids.

did you fly in a cessna 172? great story, i wish i could have gone through this experience.

Yep. I was in a Cessna 172 that day.http://kpilot13.blogspot.com/2012/03/ir-pic-xc-complete.html

I think it should at least be an option in a configuration menu. For people who have fast computers that can handle it.

Frankly, i'd rather have a cheesy rain animation than one for the oxygen mask...but alas...it's not up to me.

Nice video !