I agree, an excellent solution. There are also some excellent dedicated flight planning packages coming on the market very soon and a few options for low level VFR planning and navigation aids (a couple of them RW packages). We will most likely include some rudimentary FP assistance but have no intention of re-inventing the wheel. Our LW Assistant will most likely provide some sort of pseudo weather radar facility, covering at least the 992km x 992km weather map (a little over 600 x 600 miles).

 

But our interface is really designed for its users so the features added will be dictated by the users.

 

Regards

Stephen

This is exactly what I am doing and the winds and temps from both addons match up perfectly, AS2012 runs on my laptop, I disabled its ability to use simconnect and connect to fsx, I have opus installed just on my fsx pc, so I use the opus for weather and get all my winds and temps for planning from the as2012 UI, a great solution for now.

 

Sounds like a perfect match, thanks for testing it out and sharing the result.

 

Cheers,

Dirk.

 

Hey Guys, made this video to show what makes Opus so different from what we have used in our FS Simulation!

 

I don't have much Video Editing Skills, this is the best I can do, I hope I made clear how awesome it is to fly in FS again with this software.

Alec, you did a great job showcasing the 737 NGX. That's the best looking video I've seen of the cockpit of that aircraft. I can see why people like it. The thing is gorgeous. Also, first time I've seen the flight computer in use. Interesting.

 

The freeware clouds did indeed look very good. I won't mention any names, but the first time I saw another company's clouds, my first thought was, "Are the clouds supposed to be that ugly?" And everyone seemed to love them. They've improved since then.

 

Ok, the Opus depiction of clouds. That first line of clouds we saw looked way too much like the fair weather clouds in Microsoft Flight. This is not a compliment. They have a very mechanically generated look to the placement. The hard edge on the different cloud covers isn't attractive either. You're just suddenly In Clouds, with no kind of transition. The CB off in the distance looked good. Going through the cloud layer was very good. Under the cloud layer looked quite good as well. You've indeed got clouds out to the horizon, but the limited visibility is necessary to hide the far edge of the clouds. The effect was well done.

 

I did see a couple of graphics glitches, not sure if that was FSX and the ground, or something from the weather engine. It's hard to avoid those glitches altogether, and they aren't that noticeable.

 

I thought the video was great, actually.

 

Hook

 

Hey Guys, made this video to show what makes Opus so different from what we have used in our FS Simulation!

 

I don't have much Video Editing Skills, this is the best I can do, I hope I made clear how awesome it is to fly in FS again with this software.

 

Lol I was just watching it on the xbox, and was going to point it out. Have tofinish watching it.

Ok guys I made an on the fly video landing in LOWI it was so amazing, the valley was covered in clouds, did an rnav approach and finally busted through, of course when I turn on the camera I always seem to muff things up a bit.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9fxOLofwLo&feature=plcp

One of the limitations of multiple camera views is just having enough buttons to conveniently press.

With EZDok it's great how you can assign the joystick HAT switch to select camera views

and then use another JS button to override the EZDok HAT and pan around as normal.

Can OPUS do this?

 

Thanks,

gb.

Stephen and Chery,

 

Perhaps you can interface or communicate with the new upcoming PFPX flight planner. Looks like it will be a great tool and combined with your WE the perfect duo.

 

At the very least, perhaps someway to get the average winds aloft from departure to destination airports. Currently plug in flight plan to AS2012 or REX for this.

 

Keep up the great work and the streaming updates.

 

Dave

Hi Dave

 

We already have plans to provide that average weather assistance and a bit more. Probably in the new year. We have also contacted PFPX.

 

Regards

Stephen

Alec, you did a great job showcasing the 737 NGX. That's the best looking video I've seen of the cockpit of that aircraft. I can see why people like it. The thing is gorgeous. Also, first time I've seen the flight computer in use. Interesting.

 

The freeware clouds did indeed look very good. I won't mention any names, but the first time I saw another company's clouds, my first thought was, "Are the clouds supposed to be that ugly?" And everyone seemed to love them. They've improved since then.

 

Ok, the Opus depiction of clouds. That first line of clouds we saw looked way too much like the fair weather clouds in Microsoft Flight. This is not a compliment. They have a very mechanically generated look to the placement. The hard edge on the different cloud covers isn't attractive either. You're just suddenly In Clouds, with no kind of transition. The CB off in the distance looked good. Going through the cloud layer was very good. Under the cloud layer looked quite good as well. You've indeed got clouds out to the horizon, but the limited visibility is necessary to hide the far edge of the clouds. The effect was well done.

 

I did see a couple of graphics glitches, not sure if that was FSX and the ground, or something from the weather engine. It's hard to avoid those glitches altogether, and they aren't that noticeable.

 

I thought the video was great, actually.

 

Hook

 

First, thank you for the compliment!

 

Now, for the clouds. I think the placement of the clouds is something OpusFSX can do nothing about, it's in the FSX code. What is important is that it was showing Few Clouds at low altitude, just as we were expecting to see from the Prognostic Chart. I use a maximum visibility of 64KM(40Miles) here, I think it looks very good, and it's very realistic, but you can extend that if you want, OpusFSX will allow you to set up to 128KM (80 miles), which is a lot!

 

About some cloud glitches, that could be from the Freeware Cloud Set that I'm using, I hear FEX is one of the most natural clouds there is for FSX, but I don't plan on buying it, so I will stay with my freeware, or maybe find a REX Set I like more, which is hard since there are so many of them.

Ok guys I made an on the fly video landing in LOWI it was so amazing, the valley was covered in clouds, did an rnav approach and finally busted through, of course when I turn on the camera I always seem to muff things up a bit.

 

Revolutionary! If this video doesn't make people buy the product, I don't know what would.

One of the limitations of multiple camera views is just having enough buttons to conveniently press.

With EZDok it's great how you can assign the joystick HAT switch to select camera views

and then use another JS button to override the EZDok HAT and pan around as normal.

Can OPUS do this?

 

Thanks,

gb.

That's why I like the Saitek Profiler. and if you add more shift buttons then you can double or triple (or more) your button count. Cheers jja

One quick question before I buy. I currently have a TrackIR version 3. Do I need TrackIR 5 for the Live Camera to work? Thanks

Ok, I'm pretty convinced by those NGX videos a few of you posted - the LOWI one was incredible, wow. I know that approach extremely well because I used it as the basis for the second NGX tutorial flight. Very impressive how there's no clipping/flashing problems with the clouds at the boundaries with the terrain. The one with the CAT-III autoland also looked extremely close to what I saw doing one in a level D NG sim about 6 months ago too.

 

I wanted to clarify what I meant about the "flight planning" aspect though - some people seem to think I was saying that I do actual route flight planning inside AS2012 - that's not at l what I meant. I do my actual route planning with real life coded routes pasted into FSBuild currently. (I will almost certainly get PFPX when it comes out, it looks amazing) What I use AS2012's flight plan page output for is factoring in the winds aloft so that I can enter them into the FMC PERF INIT and DES FORECAST pages. These tune the fuel and ETE/ETA predictions and the VNAV descent path calculations to account for the wind's effect on the airplane. Basically what I'm asking for is detailed predictions of the average winds aloft for the enroute portion of the flight and predictions at all the flight levels for each descent waypoint. This is what real pilots get as part of their dispatch papers and they use the values from the sheet in the FMC (or in the case of more advanced aircraft like the 777 they just request them and they're downloaded right into the FMC via the datalink). I'm definitely not asking for route planning inside the weather engine - there's already good apps for that.

 

I'll probably pick the program up later today - I'll let everyone know what I think!

 

Hey Guys, made this video to show what makes Opus so different from what we have used in our FS Simulation!

 

I don't have much Video Editing Skills, this is the best I can do, I hope I made clear how awesome it is to fly in FS again with this software.

 

Great video!