i´m interesting to buy it, when i can use it in IVAO

 

I used it for couple of flights in VATSIM without any difference between the RL reported weather, the VATSIM METAR reports and what I actually got with Opus. Bear in mind the network software come with some sort of weather engine and this must be disabled, otherwise you might experience strange weather behaviour when flying online. That being said I assume you should have no issues using Opus with IVAP.

I would see clouds below me but they would terminate with a hard line. Solid clouds to the line and then clear skys. Very unnatural.

 

At this point since I like Opus so much, not real willing to debug active sky. What I want is real weather. Not real interetsed in historical weather. I do miss their winds aloft reporting but not enough for me to leave Opus.

 

Ahh, I see on the cloud draw. Is that with your cloud draw out to max? And you do not get that with Opus? You have me real interested now :smile:. Can you elaborate or show a couple of comparison screen shots?

 

Thanks Brad!

Hi Glen

 

We have a demo you can download from our website if you would like to try it yourself. It doesn't take long to set up and I'm sure you will enjoy it.

 

Regards

Cheryl

Ahh, I see on the cloud draw. Is that with your cloud draw out to max? And you do not get that with Opus? You have me real interested now :smile:. Can you elaborate or show a couple of comparison screen shots?

 

Thanks Brad!

 

Yes, I recommend you download the trial. Find an airport that has some weather. If you are like most, you will move to Opus once you see what we are talking about.

 

I am completely satisfied with the weather engine. One thing I really like is that you do not have wait forever for the engine to load, it is instantaneous.

So actually it seems to be the other way around imho: you are flying the real weather in "unrealistic daytime".

 

Hello

Well with AS2012 I can get the real weather for any hour of the day with the metars played back sequentially from any flight time I choose.

This is exactly what I need as it is always dark when I finally have time to fly in the evening, OPUS would only be any use to me on the few occasions that I get to fly on the weekend in daylight hours.

 

So with OPUS if you fly in the evening you are not getting real weather unless you set your sim to system time and are happy to do night flights only, otherwise as soon as you start a flight that is offset in time, your weather will no longer be correct.

 

I cannot see why anyone would be happy with a solution that limited.

We do have a METAR file import method if you can source historic data. The restriction at the moment is that each METAR must be on a seperate line of the file. We can look at modifying this. Some users have already tried this method.

 

Regards

Cheryl

Another possibility is to find somewhere with interesting weather, go to that location, load the weather, save it as a named static theme and use that weather to fly in your location. You can pick any place in the world and any weather scenario you wish. After all this isn't much different from using historic weather.

I cannot see why anyone would be happy with a solution that limited.

 

Hello

Do really mean this?

 

My advise is to download the Demo and all the manuals on all the different features, which are freely available on their website.

 

salu2

Fdovillamil

 

Joop /GCLP

Hello

Do really mean this?

 

My advise is to download the Demo and all the manuals on all the different features, which are freely available on their website.

 

salu2

Fdovillamil

 

Joop /GCLP

 

Hello

I have the latest demo installed, it is now 21:04 and OPUS is loading the latest metar, if I am happy to fly in darkness then OPUS is giving me the correct weather.

BUT if I want to fly in daylight 14:00 to be precise, OPUS is now serving me weather that is unrealistic.

 

How do you get round this limitation or are you happy to have your weather this many hours out of sync ?.

I have the latest demo installed, it is now 21:04 and OPUS is loading the latest metar, if I am happy to fly in darkness then OPUS is giving me the correct weather.

 

Hello again,

I'm in GCLP and we have the same time 2013Z right now.

Your metar should be the same Z-time. Now if you wish to fly at 14:00 you can just set your time in the sim accordingly.

 

salu2

Fdovillamil

Joop /GCLP

Now if you wish to fly at 14:00 you can just set your time in the sim accordingly.

 

Hello

Exactly and then my weather in the sim will not reflect what was happening at 14:00 but rather the weather at 2013Z along with totally wrong night time temperatures and visibility's.

 

I have just loaded up FSX with OPUS with the 20:00Z metar then closed down OPUS and cleared the weather, I then loaded AS2012 and the weather looked exactly the same, no difference in weather depiction whatsoever.

Next I loaded the correct historical weather (14:00) into AS2012 and the weather was totally different as one would expect.

I do not want night time metars when I am flying in daylight, there does not seem to be any way around this until OPUS implement historical sequential weather playback, something that I doubt they will ever do as that would mean running a server to host the archives.

I understand what "mad dog" is saying here. It's not simply a case of changing the time in the sim. It's getting the right weather if you want to fly at 14:00, and not getting 03:00 wx instead. That's a concern for me as well.

 

But that said, Cheryl mentioned that if you can find a METAR string to download, then you have some options. There is a site here:

 

http://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/metars/

 

That will give you historical (up to a point) METAR's (sometimes you have to try several times to get it to load, so keep hitting RETRY if that happens). Select the ICAO code you want and how far back you want to go, then copy that in.

 

Now, my question for Cheryl or Steve is, if you copy those manually, where can you paste them; and are those in a format that Opus can read? Further, will you get correct updates as you fly from one location to another if you are simply copying in your departure and destination airports? My guess would be no, because it has no information from which to work. While this might be good for short flights in light GA aircraft, it's a problem if you're flight high altitude stuff. So could you get AS2012 to download METAR's instead, and then somehow have OPUS use the METAR's it downloads?

 

All in all, for how much Opus seems to do, it appears to be worth using out of time METAR's, at least in the short term (in hopes this will be addressed down the road). I'm not suggesting that this one thing alone (having to use current METAR's only) is a good enough reason to dismiss the program by any stretch. It is a consideration though, as is being able to obtain upper winds forecasts for a high altitude, long haul flight. But I must say, Opus is doing everything right to make this program extremely attractive, and is offering up better customer support than any other developer I've seen to date, and that too is worth a great deal!

 

I do know about the demo version, but my preference is to stay away from those. If I'm going to "try it", I'll buy and and do everything possible to make it work for my situation. I believe in this case that is "do-able".

So could you get AS2012 to download METAR's instead, and then somehow have OPUS use the METAR's it downloads?

 

Hello

That would be great if we could do that, but I just looked at the 14:00Z weather file downloaded by AS2012 and it is 692kb and encrypted, so not just a simple metar string.

Hello

I'm getting to understand you now better.

 

The aviationweather link Beaver driver gave you is very interesting.

I would like to give you also another one I used once myself:

http://vortex.plymou.../statlog-u.html

 

They give historical metar data only as from yesterday backwards. So no way to have the metar for e.g. a few hours earlier.

 

Which Airport are you referring to at his moment, if I may ask you?

 

salu2

Fdovillamil

 

EDIT :metar data only as from

Save the METAR strings in a text file (ideally on seperate lines) and use our METAR file import option in the Weather dialog.

 

Cheryl