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

 

Great video Ian love that approach :-)

Yes.... this is an amazing program. I feel like flying in bad weather and selecting the correct approach is actually realistic.

 

The METARs are usually right on and the winds have been too. IMC is amazing now - I've setup custom metars for precision and non-precision minimum practice - they work awesome!

 

I'm not even using the cameras yet but I hear they're simple to use.

 

An excellent program. Seriously... if you're on the fence go and buy it! Can't go wrong with the F1 30 day policy,

+1 on the video.

 

As great as Opus is, im having a real issue with TAT. Any of you flying pmdg aircraft having high temperatures above fl200? Aircraft is really having trouble climbing and the temperature is different that in the spy window. Stephen says it depends on the aircraft and its a bug in fsx, but 18 deg at fl200 is hardly acceptable. What do you get?

Interestingly enough , manually loading opus weather again and again changes the temperature slightly. but not enough to where it should be.

The LWE does not set the TAT, it just sets targets for the ambient temperatures for FSX to follow. The TAT of course is calculated by the simulator or the aircraft sim, which calculates the amount of compressional heating raising the ambient temperature. If you upgrade to the latest 2.70 release and display the Local, Destination, or one of the Alternate weather report windows, the ambient temp and TAT within FSX is displayed along with the LWE target ambient temperature (SAT). That should help you decide where the problem lies. But please bare in mind the LWE does NOT set the TAT ... It is a calculated temperature based on many parameters (airspeed etc.).

 

Also note it is only the latest version of OpusFSX that sets any temperature targets for FSX at all, and at the moment only if you have the GRIB option enabled. Prior to these latest releases we have left the temperatures to FSX.

 

Regards

Stephen

I should have also pointed out that we will soon be adding temperature targets for the non GRIB, simulated upper atmospheric conditions. Probably in the next beta. Then it won't just be left to FSX to calculate ambient temperatures which could be the root cause of the high TAT problem. Until you load that beta just fly with the GRIB and Force Sim Friendly Wind options enabled along with possibly enabling Wind Stabilisation. That should keep everything under control.

 

These tight temp and wind controls will also be extended in our automatic recovery assistance, which will monitor your descent and approach set up all the time helping FSX recover the true surface conditions at your destination with minimal wind shifts and controlled ambient temps.

 

Regards

Stephen

I should have also pointed out that we will soon be adding temperature targets for the non GRIB, simulated upper atmospheric conditions. Probably in the next beta. Then it won't just be left to FSX to calculate ambient temperatures which could be the root cause of the high TAT problem. Until you load that beta just fly with the GRIB and Force Sim Friendly Wind options enabled along with possibly enabling Wind Stabilisation. That should keep everything under control.

 

These tight temp and wind controls will also be extended in our automatic recovery assistance, which will monitor your descent and approach set up all the time helping FSX recover the true surface conditions at your destination with minimal wind shifts and controlled ambient temps.

 

Regards

Stephen

 

Thanks for the info. Yes was flying with 2.70 and all the options you listed are checked. Thanks for keeping on top of things.

To Alec and Ian, great videos chaps. Showed what Opus can do. I think anybody sitting on the fence won't be now.

 

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

Look forward to that Ryan

Great video!

To Alec and Ian, great videos chaps. Showed what Opus can do. I think anybody sitting on the fence won't be now.

 

 

Look forward to that Ryan

 

Thank you guys! THat other video is just amazing! We never thought FSX would be capable of reproducing something like that!

 

As soon as PFPX is released, we will have a very nice tool to do all our pre-flight, including GRIB Wind Data, the same as Opus, so we should get the perfect combo with those two

 

I should have also pointed out that we will soon be adding temperature targets for the non GRIB, simulated upper atmospheric conditions. Probably in the next beta. Then it won't just be left to FSX to calculate ambient temperatures which could be the root cause of the high TAT problem. Until you load that beta just fly with the GRIB and Force Sim Friendly Wind options enabled along with possibly enabling Wind Stabilisation. That should keep everything under control.

 

These tight temp and wind controls will also be extended in our automatic recovery assistance, which will monitor your descent and approach set up all the time helping FSX recover the true surface conditions at your destination with minimal wind shifts and controlled ambient temps.

 

Regards

Stephen

 

Thanks for the info. Yes was flying with 2.70 and all the options you listed are checked. Thanks for keeping on top of things.

 

Please see our Coming Soon Flight1 topic which describes the extended ambient temperature and wind controls being implemented.

 

http://www.simforums.com/Forums/coming-soon_topic43213_page4.html

 

Regards

Stephen :good:

 

Thank you guys! THat other video is just amazing! We never thought FSX would be capable of reproducing something like that!

 

As soon as PFPX is released, we will have a very nice tool to do all our pre-flight, including GRIB Wind Data, the same as Opus, so we should get the perfect combo with those two

 

Hi Alec

 

We have already emailed PFPX to see if there is anything we can do to cooperate and interface. But in the new year we will also provide some FP assistance for other FP packages to provide an interface, Aviasoft for example.

 

Regards

Stephen :smile:

Hi opus team, is there any way you can integrate weather with the NGX sdk so we can get a weather radar?

Hi

 

We are planning our own weather radar in the Live Weather engine but I don't really understand how we would interface to NGX to get a weather radar, we do already interface to it for the CpFlight MCP737 panel control.

 

Cheryl

Perhaps Ryan Maziarz, developer/support for PMDG who has also participated in this thread can chime in :smile:

 

If we have two willing developers we have a win-win solution for all!

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

 

To be honest I'm not sure, we do have people using both TrackIR4 and TrackIR5 hardware with different combinations of TrackIR4 and TrackIR5 drivers, I believe that most people with TrackIR 4 hardware use TrackIR5 drivers. You can test it out on our demo software if you like to see if it works OK.

 

Regards

Cheryl

I believe that most people with TrackIR 4 hardware use TrackIR5 drivers

 

Im using TIR 4 with TIR 4 drivers

Sorry to say but I'm not really feeling confident with Opus.

Today during my flight from ENGM same windspeed and direction at FL380 enroute with only 6 knots. In descend, winddirection suddenly changes complete (90°)in a second for some minutes, then at FL240 absolutely no wind for several minutes!

 

Also metardata is very rare in Europe. There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear, mainly around the aircraft where areas in greater distance are nearly cloudless (became more cloudy as the aircraft reaches this areas, despite cloud draw distance is set to 100 miles).

 

Maybe it's more for visual flights at low altitudes at the moment, but as an airliner pilot I'm not really satisfied.

 

I will install AS2012 new Beta 2 and do the same flight to compare now.