Guidos, how do you get winds aloft along your route? With AS2012 you get winds per waypoint, needed for long flights for fuelcalcs etc., how did you do this when changing over to Opus?

In the weather setup tab and weather download tab you have to specify your destination and cruising altitude and enable GRIB. I have never done fuel calculations. I am lightweight simmer I am afraid. The best place is the OpusFSX forum to get more information on that matter. The support is very good and the developer and others are quick in responding.

Thanks, I own Opus since version 2.4x, I changed to AS2012 when I fly airliners, because I need the wind data along the route for my fuelplanning. Much has happened since I last used Opus and I just wanted some feedback about the wind data. GA-flying is still Opus all the way

Active Sky had textures combined in the one interface as far back as AS 6.0, long before REX came along

 

 

Ah, didn't know that. The versions of AS that I own never had graphics. I thought the graphics they made were a seperate addon (which I didn't mention because afaik it never was that popular). Apparently only version 6.0 had those graphics included? Anyway, I stand corrected. ^_^

Morten, PFPX takes its weather from the same source as OPUS so flightplanning will be a 'breeze' when released

Morten, PFPX takes its weather from the same source as OPUS so flightplanning will be a 'breeze' when released

 

Great combination ;-)

I just did a flight in eastern Canada (deliberately looking for bad weather) and to my surprise I didn't notice much of an FPS loss. Framerate always stayed above 30 (and I don't need more because I'm using VSync + 1/2 refresh rate).

 

Overall, clouds looked great and so did the snow in mid air. One thing though, during decent, every 5 seconds or so, there was a very quick wind direction change that only happened for a split second. These kept repeatedly happening until final approach. Any suggestions?

Morten, PFPX takes its weather from the same source as OPUS so flightplanning will be a 'breeze' when released

 

Thanks, that is good news!

Don't they all get their weather from the same source though?

Get it!!!

RL

I just did a flight in eastern Canada (deliberately looking for bad weather) and to my surprise I didn't notice much of an FPS loss. Framerate always stayed above 30 (and I don't need more because I'm using VSync + 1/2 refresh rate).

 

Overall, clouds looked great and so did the snow in mid air. One thing though, during decent, every 5 seconds or so, there was a very quick wind direction change that only happened for a split second. These kept repeatedly happening until final approach. Any suggestions?

 

This link might help Arjen:

http://www.simforums...topic44923.html