If you use Historical Weather often, what is your favorite weather engine to use for Historical Weather?

 

Just like alot of people here, I like OpusFSX alot.  Unfortunately, OpusFSX only offers the last 24 hours for historical weather (Unless of course they've changed that with a recent update...they come up with updates so frequently that sometimes its hard to keep up!  And thats a good thing ).

 

 

Go back to Thursday morning 6th October 2011? Or run up non random exciting realistic weather for any time and day anywhere in the world, and is exactly the same if I go back to exactly the same time day and place? You know what mine is.

Active Sky 2012

ASE or AS2012.

ASE, all the active sky iterations have had this feature since forever.   I'm not even aware if the others (REX or OPUS) even have it, I think Opus might introduce it sometime.   I cannot fathom not having historical weather, all my flights use weather that is synced to the date/times of flights I pull out of flightaware, and they are all from the past, never the present.

If you use Historical Weather often, what is your favorite weather engine to use for Historical Weather?

 

Just like alot of people here, I like OpusFSX alot.  Unfortunately, OpusFSX only offers the last 24 hours for historical weather (Unless of course they've changed that with a recent update...they come up with updates so frequently that sometimes its hard to keep up!  And thats a good thing ).

 

That's the one thing that's stopping me moving to Opus for weather. They're talking about extending the historical data to 36 hours, but that's not enough for me.

I'm not even aware if the others (REX or OPUS) even have it, I think Opus might introduce it sometime.

Opus does not (only the last 24 hours). REX added it some time back, with their data going back from the current date to the beginning of 2012. Both REX and AS maintain their own servers, while I believe Opus data is loaded directly by the end user from public sources. I expect Opus would need to do what REX and AS have done in order to support long term historic wx.

 

BTW, to answer the question - I use REX for my historic wx flights.

 

Scott