I downloaded the latest 2.60.08 and cannot get any weather to show up in the OpusFSI window. I had 2.60 previously and in the spy window was getting the unable to open COMO serial port message.

 

Now, I still get no local or destination weather and in the spy window after SIM Air Folder = "aircraft name" nothing else happens.

 

 

Should I just reinstall everything and stat from scratch? Please help if you can thanks

Hi Phillip

 

Check your configuration settings carefully after upgrading, they can get corrupted. It sounds like you have the CPFlight driver enabled in the Configuration dialog to give you the COMO serial port error message. Check all your Weather settings, sometimes Import METAR file can be checked.

 

Regards

Cheryl

Thanks Cheryl, as always, for excellent customer service. I got it working but it is not accurate in it's weather indicators.

 

I was parked at KLAX and the FSX ATIS read barometer 29.92 and OPUSFSI reports window was indication 30.11. Also, FSX ATIS indicated "winds calm" and OPUSFSi said winds 270/08.

 

When I was flying from KSFO to KSEA at 32,000 feet, the OPUSFSI GRIB data was winds 270/82, while my TAS was 454 and ground speed 447! This makes no sense. At the same time FSCommander was reporting winds 262/25.

 

Any thoughts on this? It's confusing to fly like this. Thanks for your help.

Then something was clearly wrong. The OpusFSX LWE is not inaccurate. Download the latest beta 2.60.9 which has better report windows to use to compare. Make sure the weather has been injected and you only have the Opus LWE injecting weather, then check. If it is not 100% correct in agreement between the ATIS and the Opus Local weather report then you have not updated the weather.

 

Also check the Upper Atmosphere Weather report in 2.60.9 and take note of the forecast cycle and weather targets. Make sure you have enabled GRIB and enabled wind stabilisation (many systems don't need it, but 2.60.9 will enable it automatically for you as you climb into the GRIB zone.

 

Compare the FSX ambient wind (shift Z) or the ND with the Upper Atmosphere report. There should NOT be much of a difference at all.

 

And once more, if you load the weather whilst sitting on the ground at a METAR airport and the weather in the local report does not match the ATIS 100% then there is something wrong and you are not seeing OpusFSX weather. It just does not make errors of that nature.

 

Regards

Stephen :-)

Any time I see barometer 29.92 I assume weather hasn't been loaded. That's usually the clearest indicator that you're getting weather from an outside source.

 

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Yes, I think Phillip didn't have any OpusFSX weather updated at all, otherwise there would have been a 100% agreement between the local weather report in Opus and the FSX ATIS, especially with 2.60.8 onwards. I think the Spy window might indicate some sort of error. But the using 2.60 there is no weather attribute that is left to chance. If you have Opus weather, the ATIS is spot on.

 

In testing I can use the alternate weather reports to obtain 100% accurate weather from any site within 300 miles of my location. So not having an agreement between the Opus local report and the airports ATIS just doesn't figure.

 

Regards

Stephen

SOLVED! Sorry. My bad. I didn't have FSX set up as the installation folder. At least now if this happens to anyone else maybe they can self fix with this thread. Thanks again for the great service Stephen and Cheryl!!!

No problem, glad it is sorted.

 

Cheryl