Well said William. I just took off from Bowerman in a 21kt crosswind and for the first time ever, I felt like it was actually a 21kt crosswind! 2012 told me it was 21kts but it never caused me to sweat it! Maybe I'm just kidding myself, but I've got a helluva grin on! :biggrin:

All that matters, in the end, if that the customer is happy I guess.

Heck, sometimes I throw out the RW METAR, and make my own, even though I live in SouthEast GA, and the weather is beautiful, I want what I want....lol

 

Can't tell you how many times I have loaded up KSSI, threw in some gale force winds, clouds, and flew a C172 backwards....lol

What won me over was the complete overcast conditions, an actual solid cloud deck when reported, And how it depicts low visibility, I hate having to autoland, but with opus its not always a choice, I have used AS2012 and REXE and they can't seem to get their weather to do what opus has done in their short time. The support for as2012 REXE and opus are great, they all have great features, but opus is my new weather engine, the developer is constantly working on it, there is a new public beta pretty much every 1 to 2 days, fixing issues and adding features, soon to be accurate winds aloft data. They offer a demo and a 30 day refund, what other weather engine does this?

I've just joined the ranks of Opus fans. I've been an ASE/2012 user for...yonks. I really couldn't see that 2012 could be bettered. Wrong!

The depiction of misty, foggy, low visibility conditions immediately made FSX, for me anyway, a whole bunch more serious.

This evening I did a short hop from Corvallis to Hobby, about halfway, the dense fog I took off in gave way to a lighter fog. Great. I took off and did the return journey. Wouldn't you know I ran into the heavy stuff about 10 miles out of Corvallis. Fabulous!

I've read a lot of the angst ridden posts on AVSIM about Opus and frankly I was a bit put off by the intensity of the 'for and againsts'.

Anyhow, I tried the demo for 20 minutes and that was it. Sold to the old guy in the gravy stained sweater.

A serious word of advice to anyone buying it. RTFM! Twice or even thrice!

Cheers

 

 

Damn Stephen! You've got to quit paying these people to say such things. You're loosing all your profit on the software :biggrin:

DeCampos, on 30 October 2012 - 11:09 PM, said:

 

 

Since you mentioned AS2012, I`ve tried both and Opus is far superior it feels the clouds are actually there and not just textures placed around. It completely changed FSX.

 

Joe

 

 

Interesting. This is one of the reasons I like AS2012 so much. Clouds "pivot" less.

 

I'd be very interested in some comparison shots in the screenshot forum since you both own both programs.

 

Not sure what you trying to get at. I didn't say clouds "pivot", what I can say is if you fly with OpusFSX weather you'll quickly realize how much you were missing.

Not sure what you trying to get at. I didn't say clouds "pivot", what I can say is if you fly with OpusFSX weather you'll quickly realize how much you were missing.

 

I'm not sure how else to put it. Any way, forgive me if I don't take your word for it.

 

Otherwise, thanks everyone for the input.

Damn Stephen! You've got to quit paying these people to say such things. You're loosing all your profit on the software

 

:lol:

 

For any flight sim journalists out there that might be reading this. I'll be at the airport at noon tomorrow, wearing a black suit. Wear spotted pants and a tropical helmet. I will then make contact with you and tell the true story behind Opus. ^_^

Hopefully you guys are trying the same location using the same metar info with both programs before drawing a conclusion? I've noticed every bit of praise is about fog.

 

Are there any side by side comparisons? As a real pilot, AS2012 has been pretty darn accurate at my local airport. Simply having more fog doesn't seem to be a good thing.

I have, and at least with default settings I find Opus to give me way better overcast conditions.

 

With low visibility you see the difference best while descending towards your destination. With Active Sky you usually have clear view to the ground until you break the fog layer and visibility goes dramatically low. Opus on the other hand seems to be good at generating cloud and other lower visibility layers to cover these lower fog layers and that makes low visibility approach way more realistic as you don't see the ground well at any point when you have fog layer below you.

Hi Guys

 

Once again thanks for your kind comments and a hearty welcome to the man in the gravy stained sweater

 

Welcome aboard Ron, we know it can be a bit daunting changing over from a previous weather engine

 

I just wanted to let you know release version 2.30 has been posted and is ready for you. This one doesn't alter your cfg files at all until you enable LC for the first time or open the Camera dialog for the first time (then it needs to scan and prep the cfg files ready for you to edit the views). Probably more important than that is I have fixed a silly bug (my boob) which was throwing out METAR reports if they didn't have a dew point specified ... whoops. :blush: Anyway its fixed now so where you wasn't getting correct weather you might just do so now.

 

You can download it from the usual place and uninstall + install, or use the zip file, I've put that behind the Beta button. Details in the Flight1 Announcements topic.

 

Best Regards

Stephen

 

P.S. Our hearts go out to all those in the path or aftermath of Sandy.

LC? Thanks for the welcome and fyi I've changed my sweater for a clean one. The wife was getting embarrassed taking me out.

I know the feeling Ron, LC = Live Camera.

 

Stephen

Probably more important than that is I have fixed a silly bug (my boob) which was throwing out METAR reports if they didn't have a dew point specified ... whoops. :blush: Anyway its fixed now so where you wasn't getting correct weather you might just do so now.

 

And I might note that service like THIS is why so many of us are posting positive comments - the late silliness on that whole non-issue aside. I reported this problem yesterday afternoon (my time) and it was fixed before Stephen went to bed (far later his time) and is in everyone's hands today. This is the first time that Stephen and I have communicated directly since I became interested in the product and I've only been a customer myself for a few weeks.

 

This isn't just service, it's passion.

 

Scott

I converted last week too.

Long time ASE / AS2012 / REX user. Opus blows them all out of the water. Visibility is real. Overcast is real. Cloud behavior is real.

No more constant wx reloads on short final. No more semi-overcast one second and clear blue skies the next on approach.

 

Consistent weather all the way down to the runway, provided you can find it in poor visibility.

Gold stuff.

I have been using Opus now for nearly a month and I can tell you, I am still in awe of the weather I’m getting inP3D. It’s like discovering a whole new sim again, with weather that feels so real, and the challenge level with all my flights I have taken since using Opus has shot up x10!

 

As many have mentioned here, how Opus handles the overcast and fog.. it really is quite something to be seen. And when you climb through it, you can be climbing for some time and have a complete grey-out then break through to other multiple cloud layers, exactly where they should be.

 

Another real nice feature I have noticed with Opus is when you are doing the longer IFR high alt flights. At fl 370, it really feels like that and you can really sense the altitude. Before with other weather engines, the clouds didn’t look like they were that far down. You know when you been on an airliner and you look out the window at cruise and the clouds look miles below you… this is the first time I have really seen this in Opus where you see the little cumulus below (not so little as they are a long way down really)… then all the other layers; altocumulus, altostratus, cirrostratus and cirrus… just incredible

 

But it’s not ‘all clouds’ you know… Opus also handles the fair and fine weather really well with lots of those small scattered and puffy cumulus.. just amazing!

 

An amazing weather engine, and I can no longer be going back to ‘the other one’ even though they are realising their long overdue update