Went back to AS2012 today because the new Opus beta has my airplane bouncing up and down, and still has wind or pressure shifts that make me lose or gain airspeed. For low slow VFR flying, Opus is superior though. But once you start going long distances at high altitudes or across ocean, I think AS2012 will still be my default. For now at least.

 

100% same for me

I wonder why some of you guys have these problems and others don't.

 

I do all my flying online in the NGX and thus never flies below FL260 and the legs I'm flying are between 1-5 hours approx and I don't have any problems what so ever with Opus since the latest version 2.40.1

100% same for me

You should check your settings, the latest beta, I have no wind shifts at all. Just completed a flight from KPHL to KMDW, at FL380, and was spot on.

Will like to try OPus clouds soon as they fix the cruise winds etc .

 

They have upper winds and low temps at high levels in OpusFSX right now, and there is indication of upper winds in the report (UI), you can use it for now. It's not like you're flying in a vacuum up there with Opus. May even be good enough for your long haul calculations. But mind you the winds, clouds and visibility shifts are still quite horrible on wx updates for fine add-ons like PMDG, they may even hammer your plane down. AS2012 (and ASE (v4) btw!!), were the best before the latest OpusFSX patch of today and REX's upgrade, haven't tried them yet, it's too much.

 

Dirk.

 

You should check your settings, the latest beta, I have no wind shifts at all. Just completed a flight from KPHL to KMDW, at FL380, and was spot on.

 

Sounds good, what are you settings in FSUIPC btw? Most of the AS2012 flyers don't use any of the wx options there. What are your Live Weather Update settings? Perhaps I have it wrong and too often at 10min or 40km?

 

Dirk.

Out of all of them, Opus is the only one that correctly displays the cloud coverage without new clouds popping in and out as you leave/enter new wx station areas.

 

I don't have AS, and maybe I don't understand what you mean by "popping", but I'm seeing very similar behavior here between Opus and REXE+ using the new wx engine. In areas of changing wx, both wx engines certainly can and will pop new clouds (or make clouds disappear) if the METAR in an area changes. If the wx is stable both seem to let me fly into or out of storm areas with stable depictions.

 

I haven't gone to the latest Opus beta yet, but right now I'm definitely flying more in REXE+, as so far I simply prefer the depiction I'm getting there and I like being able to use historic wx to time-shift but still fly real world. I'm having a few issues with historic wx, but getting those sorted out. Winds aloft also seem to be working very well - so far without major boundary changes such as I've been getting with Opus, but again I'm probably a week or so out of date on Opus betas.

 

As I mentioned earlier, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that REX would do a better job with their own textures.

 

In any case, at some point, I just want to quit playing with wx engines, get to a stable, useable setup and just fly. Right now it's looking like REXE+ will be the platform I'll be doing that in, at least for a while.

 

Scott

I never had any cloud popping in the AS2012, when using smooth clouds transitions. Also in DWC only popping was when engine was refreshing weather, same as Opus.

 

+1

There's NO cloud popping in AS2012 using DWC on my set up... NEVER.

I've seen that happen with Opus though...

There's no clouds 'popping' in AS2012, I can't really notice it any more, bu it comes for a price I guess.

I can't say I like their cloudiness depiction. OpusFSX surprises me with the correct depiction of different layers of clouds at differen altitudes as per the wx report. Actually you can see cloud fronts and overcast in the distance, low clouds, high clouds, hard deck, and much more smaller clouds rahter then just fewer bigger puffy ones in the other wx engine. Really hard to explain, I should make a video, screenshots do not show properly.

 

Dirk.

Went back to AS2012 today because the new Opus beta has my airplane bouncing up and down, and still has wind or pressure shifts that make me lose or gain airspeed. For low slow VFR flying, Opus is superior though. But once you start going long distances at high altitudes or across ocean, I think AS2012 will still be my default. For now at least.

 

Same here.

I really feel the same way.

Some say wind does not matter by more than +- 20 min delay.

 

I said that.

 

The other day I flew from Dubai to Stockholm in the NGX and using OpusFSX.

The flight is scheduled to take 7 hours. The actual flight time for me was around 6:30.

 

The other guy who departed Dubai for Stockholm that day ( with a 738), lined up just ahead of me. He arrived 5-10 min before I did. He told me he used Active Sky Evolution.

 

Therefore I can confirm that I live just fine with not having true winds aloft for now.

I said that.

 

The other day I flew from Dubai to Stockholm in the NGX and using OpusFSX.

The flight is scheduled to take 7 hours. The actual flight time for me was around 6:30 hours

 

The other guy who departed Dubai for Stockholm that day ( with a 738), lined up just ahead of me. He arrived 5-10 min before I did. He told me he used Active Sky Evolution.

 

Therefore I can confirm that I live just fine with not having true winds aloft for now.

 

Again, you can use those reported in Opus's wx ui, and then adjust them at the crz level from the plane's sensors. This is a work around for now, of course, but it works this way, you can try it, guys.

 

What are your magic settings in Opus (Live Weather Updates, Max Surf Visibility and others) and in FSUIPC? I understand the flight went smooth?

 

Thanks,

Dirk.

Again, you can use those reported in Opus's wx ui, and then adjust them at the crz level from the plane's sensors. This is a work around for now, of course.

 

What are your magic settings in Opus (Live Weather Updates, Max Surf Visibility and others) and in FSUIPC? I understand the flight went smooth?

 

Thanks,

Dirk.

 

Yup, that's what I did. Works out pretty good.

 

Not at my FS computer now, and don't remember all the details off the top of my head. I will report back on that.

 

The flight went smooth. No major issues. Of course, I had a few windshifts over the long flight, but nothing extreme, and no autopilot disengagement etc etc.

I think I will stay with AS2012. A few days ago I have installed the new SP2 Beta. And I was very excited about the flight I made by using this new service pack.

 

Patric

I said that.

 

The other day I flew from Dubai to Stockholm in the NGX and using OpusFSX.

The flight is scheduled to take 7 hours. The actual flight time for me was around 6:30.

 

The other guy who departed Dubai for Stockholm that day ( with a 738), lined up just ahead of me. He arrived 5-10 min before I did. He told me he used Active Sky Evolution.

 

Therefore I can confirm that I live just fine with not having true winds aloft for now.

 

Once you start adding fuel planning that accounts for average wind component to your flight plans, youll see what i mean.

I compared Opus with FSrealWX lite and basically get the same results for free.

 

Not sure why everyone is wasting money on payware engines when there is perfectly good freeware available!

 

http://board.hanse-coders.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2

REX+ gave me this over Austria today. So far, I'm really happy with what it predicts and then establishes.