Seems like I can never get logged in over at the REX forums so I thought I'd post here. Wondering if anyone has seen this and might have any work arounds or fixes.

 

I tend to run my sim with challenging weather...low visibility, turbulence, crosswinds...different stuff for training or for making it more real. I *try* to use REX for this but I have a couple of issues when I use it.

• Sometimes, the weather clears and stays away. I can understand it clearing it momentarily while it reloads but then it just turns into a perfect sunny day for 4-5 minutes and the weather comes back. Forcing a reload doesn't seem to help much if at all.
  
• Can't seem to figure out how to set the surface wind...at least at the low altitude airport that I generally fly out of (60 ft). The lowest layer of wind you can add is 1000 ft. Not sure if that's MSL or AGL. My guess is MSL.
  

 

I'm finding myself having to turn it off.

 

I don't have any other weather apps running, and I have my weather set at 'custom' inside FSX. My set up is pretty standard and basic with FSUIPC (full version), Ultimate Terrain 2, and EZDoc running. My CPU on three virtual cores is about 60%...the other 5 are fairly idle.

 

Regards,

Gregg

I have the same problem with clouds suddenly vanishing and reappearing using REX textures and ASE weather engine. I've always accepted it as being the nature of the FSX beast, but if there is a solution I'd be thrilled to hear it.

Me too. Approach through low cloud, rain, thunder & lightning, on landing a miracle clearance, to bright blue clear skies.

I'm having similar issues too. This morning for instance arriving at KFLL from MUCC with the 737-900 BBJ3 and flying west just south of Miami the whole area looked hazy but cloudless at 41000 ft. And then, after I started my descent, the weather injected and cleared the skies of all haze. I manually reinjected and suddenly haze AND just a few clouds appeared. Then, just before capturing the ILS, the weather again reloaded and I suddenly found myself in the middle of a thunderstorm. The weather and clouds were great, but the way the weather pops up, and it doesn't always, with clouds suddenly as opposed to gradually.....this is just soooooooooooo unrealistic.

 

It's a shame because they are pushing their product as being very realstic and when it does work with Prepar3D, well the results are truely amazing. I do believe they are working on a patch to fix certain issues, hopefully it will and be realeased soon.

 

Cheers,

 

Jerome

Happens with AS2012 also. There are options in AS2012 to disable any changes below a certain altitude I think, preventing new weather injection.

Not sure if the REX Wx engine has the same. I don't use it since the winds aloft go bananas. AS2012 has smooth wind injection.

I gave up on both wx engines precisely because of these issues.

 

Fair weather, fsx default, suits me. At least there are none of these wind/cloud issues anymore

Well, I do like the textures...not so much on the water (looks weird when a river or a pond has waves like an ocean), but the clouds look good. But I get what you're saying. When I turned it off and just used FSX weather it was good to see that the weather was staying on consistently again.

Gregg,

 

How are you setting up REX to inject wx? Archived, real world, "random"?

 

One thing that I've discovered from reading the REX support forums is that there seem to be some issues with archived weather that can apparently impact weather injection not matching the lastest data.

 

I almost always run real-world wx, and ran into this when real-world stopped matching what I was getting once I actually started a flight. The METAR at my departure airport would be correct and up to date in REX, but when I went to fly the conditions actually injected were almost always clear and hazy or would be correct on first injection, but revert to clear and hazy on the second. The story's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the heart of it.

 

What seemed to fix this for me was to a) make sure the selection to delete archived wx on exit was ticked, EDIT grr... smiley faces stole my "b paren" End EDIT bee) to manually delete files in the REX MetarXML and vatsim folders (the selection to delete only deletes the database info, not the actual files) and c) performing a database compact and repair on the rex.mdb database using the utility in Microsoft Access. Obviously the last step requires that you have access to, er... Access.

 

Doing these things were all based on tips gleaned from reading of similar issues in the REX support forums, so you might want to re-double your efforts to get registered there.

 

I expect more permanent fixes may be coming in the patch that's been announced.

 

BTW, there are water textures with less obvious waves, and I **uely recall there's one that specifically calls out reduced waves for inland waterways.

 

BTW^2, there is an option to not inject fresh wx below a specified altitude which can help eliminate that pesky last minute wx change on the approach. But if someone is seeing switches from CAVU to thunderstorms, there's something else going on.

 

Hope some of this helps,

 

Scott

Seems like I can never get logged in over at the REX forums so I thought I'd post here. Wondering if anyone has seen this and might have any work arounds or fixes.

 

I tend to run my sim with challenging weather...low visibility, turbulence, crosswinds...different stuff for training or for making it more real. I *try* to use REX for this but I have a couple of issues when I use it.

• Sometimes, the weather clears and stays away. I can understand it clearing it momentarily while it reloads but then it just turns into a perfect sunny day for 4-5 minutes and the weather comes back. Forcing a reload doesn't seem to help much if at all.
  
• Can't seem to figure out how to set the surface wind...at least at the low altitude airport that I generally fly out of (60 ft). The lowest layer of wind you can add is 1000 ft. Not sure if that's MSL or AGL. My guess is MSL.
  

I'm finding myself having to turn it off.

 

I don't have any other weather apps running, and I have my weather set at 'custom' inside FSX. My set up is pretty standard and basic with FSUIPC (full version), Ultimate Terrain 2, and EZDoc running. My CPU on three virtual cores is about 60%...the other 5 are fairly idle.

 

Regards,

Gregg

 

Gregg -

 

I am sorry you are having issues logging into the REX forum. Let me give you the best recommendations and some good news.

 

First the good news. In our early tests with REX Essential Service Pack 1 - we have seem to fix this issue of clearing weather. However, let me express this is currently in ALPHA only.

 

Secondly, I would recommend that you widen your weather region in the Configuration Manager to a larger area, and then set the Weather Refresh Rate in REX to 60 minutes. This will temporarly give better realism. OR

 

If you want you can have REX load the entire world weather and then just shut it down. That way you have the world weather loaded and unless you need the LATEST update.

Hi Scott,

 

I use real world weather only but I do add low visibility, wind, etc. It's pretty obvious when you're flying through the soup and then SHAZAAM...clear daaaaay. I'll look for the "do not inject below..." option. That would help since most of these flights are short hops for instrument training at lower altitudes. Doesn't fix the problem but it hides it. I'll also look at the options to delete archived wx, and delete the stuff from those folders. I don't have Access. (Access...really? Ugh.)

 

I do have a login but I can't seem to...er...log in ...and the password reset...don't get me started. LOL.

 

Gregg

 

First the good news. In our early tests with REX Essential Service Pack 1 - we have seem to fix this issue of clearing weather. However, let me express this is currently in ALPHA only.

 

Secondly, I would recommend that you widen your weather region in the Configuration Manager to a larger area, and then set the Weather Refresh Rate in REX to 60 minutes. This will temporarly give better realism. OR

 

If you want you can have REX load the entire world weather and then just shut it down. That way you have the world weather loaded and unless you need the LATEST update.

 

That's good news and sounds like good suggestions. Looking forward to the release of the service pack.

Yes, after a 9 hour flight from KATL to EHAM in reasonable weather i was coming in for my ILS approach and the winds almost flipped the 747 over on its back. Very realistic. REXWX is not used on my rig right now :)

Yes, after a 9 hour flight from KATL to EHAM in reasonable weather i was coming in for my ILS approach and the winds almost flipped the 747 over on its back. Very realistic. REXWX is not used on my rig right now :)

 

Was this due to weather injection process of just the winds in general?

And why, in God's name does it take up to 10 minutes to interpret and parse the "weather data" prior to loading FSX? Downloading Real weather in FSX takes all but 5 seconds ( I have a VERY fast fiber internet connection).

 

And what about that User Interface???? Text spilling over and obscuring other information. Totally unacceptable for a commercial product. My screen settings should not be an issue outside FSX...Looks like something I could have cobbled together myself.

 

I have to say that I'm not too impressed with REX Essentials.

I almost always run real-world wx, and ran into this when real-world stopped matching what I was getting once I actually started a flight. The METAR at my departure airport would be correct and up to date in REX, but when I went to fly the conditions actually injected were almost always clear and hazy or would be correct on first injection, but revert to clear and hazy on the second. The story's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the heart of it.

 

Exactly the problem I'm having. I'd load up my local airport in stormy conditions and get a single bank of clouds in the distance, a bunch of haze, and clear skys behind me even though I know the METAR says differently. Even manual injections wouldn't fix this. Then I twice tried a flight out of KBUF, stormy weather, hazey, lots of clouds. As soon as REX updates, clear skies.

 

I ended up just going back to using Active Sky as my weather engine with no problems with REX textures. Not really seeing the point of using the REX WX engine right now with the problems it's having when AS does just as well if not better without all the glitches. Their syncing system with FSX is so much smoother and more reliable.

Was this due to weather injection process of just the winds in general?

2-3 minutes before landing it said something about "Injecting weather" and everything went ape...