This will be so amazing! Not a plane I would ever consider flying, but because it's going to be so revolutionary in the FS World, with several techniques being used for the first time in a FS aircraft, I can't help but get my credit card ready for this.

Which again is inadequate if the data comes from FSX weather stations due to weather smoothing mechanisms (eg Active Sky 2012's direct weather control -> all FSX stations globally, at any given time, have the same weather -> the weather of the aircraft's current station).

 

This will work only if they download and process METARs directly from the internet, bypassing FSX and the weather engine.

 

of course we make assumptions about the reflectivity since there is no exact information about it in FSX, and we have no means to discover a punctual storm inside a triangle of weather stations if every station shows blue skies and no wind. However, weather information inside the FSX is also based on weather stations. We base our calculations on the same basis that the FSX itself. Thus we can at least guarantee that the weather shown by the radar corresponds to the actual weather in the FSX. By the way, if required, Active Sky and REX set FSX weather stations to custom weather (or the real one), so our radar will correctly work with these add-ons as well.

 

If we download METARs from Internet, the weather shown will no longer correspond to the weather in the FSX and this will be indeed confusing.

Active Sky and REX set FSX weather stations to custom weather (or the real one), so our radar will correctly work with these add-ons as well.

Hi Samdim!

Any chance to make this weather radar compatible with opus?

Certainly there is a gap for turboprops and somebody has to fill it. I'm thinking also about the ATR 600 series and Saab 340. But a Dash Q 400 is a nice start at least for someone like who enjoys hopping around regional airports in North America!

Hi Samdim!

Any chance to make this weather radar compatible with opus?

 

Since Opus "sets" the weather at FSX stations the radar should work with that weather.

My computer weeps softly just thinking about running this....

 

 

Time for an upgrade!

For some very specific and very poorly designed-coded products (eg EFHK) it is.

 

Well then that isn't an FSX limitation or poorly designed FSX product as the person claimed that I was responding to, and afaik EFHK has a new version out that works fine

 

By configuration problems, if you mean turning down all of the sliders, that shouldn't be an issue with a powerful computer that includes an Ivy Bridge i7, 12Gigs of RAM and GTX680. I can't even use much AI traffic without getting an OOM error.

I have been told that this is an issue caused by FSX being a 32bit software.

 

That's not right at all. There is something in your FSX that is causing a problem. A scenery with corrupted file, duplicate afcad file, corrupted ai texture, etc. Plenty of people run 100% traffic with no problems.

That's not right at all. There is something in your FSX that is causing a problem. A scenery with corrupted file, duplicate afcad file, corrupted ai texture, etc. Plenty of people run 100% traffic with no problems.

 

I guess I will have to check for that by turning some things off in the Scenery Library. I suspect that Aerosoft's US Cities Los Angeles has some kind of memory leak, because I can't fly anywhere near it without getting an OOM error.

of course we make assumptions about the reflectivity since there is no exact information about it in FSX, and we have no means to discover a punctual storm inside a triangle of weather stations if every station shows blue skies and no wind. However, weather information inside the FSX is also based on weather stations. We base our calculations on the same basis that the FSX itself. Thus we can at least guarantee that the weather shown by the radar corresponds to the actual weather in the FSX. By the way, if required, Active Sky and REX set FSX weather stations to custom weather (or the real one), so our radar will correctly work with these add-ons as well.

 

If we download METARs from Internet, the weather shown will no longer correspond to the weather in the FSX and this will be indeed confusing.

 

You completely missed my point.

 

ActiveSky does provide FSX with real time weather, but at any given time, it gives to all stations globally the weather of the station where the aircraft is. And to keep it real time, it gradully changes-interpolates this "global" current weather towards the data that it (ActiveSky) has from the internet METARs.

 

So, the player has real time weather when he needs it (when he gets to the new station - and not before), Active Sky knows about all weather stations real time (from the internet METARs). But FSX does not. So your radar will have false data for what lies/waits ahead.

 

So, unless you provide an extra mode of operation for your weather radar (by getting information directly from internet METARs), it will not work, for all simmers that like to have wind smoothing into their weather (that's what this Active Sky weather mode is for), so that their aircraft do not constantly break down from overspeed due to sudden and severe changes in wind speed and direction.

CptAwsome makes a good point about global weather (DWC) in Active Sky. It is the same reason you can't get good ATIS from FSX because it apparently can't distinguish the weather from where you are currently from anywhere else. This will definitely be a problem for the weather radar when using DWC, but Active Sky is pretty bad with the winds when using other other weather modes, so I'm hoping the developers can make some provisions for this.

 

This is my most anticipated plane for the upcoming year, but I'm a bit afraid its going to give my machine a kick in the crotch if it is as deep in its level of simulation as it is good looking.

CptAwsome makes a good point about global weather (DWC) in Active Sky. It is the same reason you can't get good ATIS from FSX because it apparently can't distinguish the weather from where you are currently from anywhere else. This will definitely be a problem for the weather radar when using DWC, but Active Sky is pretty bad with the winds when using other other weather modes, so I'm hoping the developers can make some provisions for this.

 

Exactly.

 

At least someone, understands what I'm saying.

OK, I see the point now. I'm not familiar with weather engines (remember, I just make visual models) but I've heard that there is a mode allowing to set all the stations to real weather, not only those situated around the aircraft.

 

Anyway, Majestic make aircraft, not weather engines. Making a proprietary weather engine may lead to a conflict with other engines installed. If actual weather engines cannot set weather stations to 240nm radius, well - they just have to learn to do that, I can't see any technical problem with that.

 

In PRO version, we are developing a mode where the weather radar uses real world METARs (from Internet) to depict the weather passing a certain range. It is not ready yet to be shown and compared to real weather maps.

Yes, this sounds like it might potentially be a problem. The latest version of Active Sky 2012 includes something called "Local Station Writes with DWC", but I don't really understand if that will address the situation or not, and I somewhat doubt the answer is that simple. I wonder if somebody reading this thread who happens to be in good with the Active Sky people might bring this situation to their attention, maybe?

 

(To sum, the Majestic Weather Radar relies on Local Station writes and is therefore quite probably incompatible with Active Sky Direct Weather Control, which uses "global" weather)

 

Also, on the Majestic end, will there be an option to disable the weather radar, just in case this truly is a valid issue, and possibly never gets resolved?

Yes, this sounds like it might potentially be a problem. The latest version of Active Sky 2012 includes something called "Local Station Writes with DWC", but I don't really understand if that will address the situation or not, and I somewhat doubt the answer is that simple. I wonder if somebody reading this thread who happens to be in good with the Active Sky people might bring this situation to their attention, maybe?

 

(To sum, the Majestic Weather Radar relies on Local Station writes and is therefore quite probably incompatible with Active Sky Direct Weather Control, which uses "global" weather)

 

Also, on the Majestic end, will there be an option to disable the weather radar, just in case this truly is a valid issue, and possibly never gets resolved?

 

On the real plane the weather radar has an off button presumably?

On the real plane the weather radar has an off button presumably?

 

Ummm...yeah, you're right :p0814: <---me.

 

 

Still do hope that the concern of incompatibility with DWC turns out to be nothing though and that this theoretically posed situation gets checked out by somebody, now that it has been brought up.