We are not working with anyone, we have overcome these problems within FSX ourselves as part of the current beta dev cycle. Download and use beta 3.03.6 since I made an error in .5 which resulted in too many updates. There is very little that can be done about delays in getting weather injected on startup. I suppose you could prepare Opus before running FSX. The next beta will save the flight plan when you shut the program down so that will help. Don't know if some form of saving the flight with the weather and restarting would help.

 

Stephen

It can take anything upto 20 mins for AI planes to settle down and follow the injected weather. Just another quirke of FSX.

It can take anything upto 20 mins for AI planes to settle down and follow the injected weather. Just another quirke of FSX.

What I would do is load FSX with AI set to 0. Start OPUS and let it completely download and inject weather. Then set AI to what traffic setting you like. If there is a weather update that causes a different runway assignment then  the AI being (injected) within (AI are spawned about 40-50 from the airport) range of the airport SHOULD be assigned the new runway. You'll see a shift of AI from using the old configuration to the new one as ATC assigns new expected runways. IF it works the way it should.

 

That is my take on it.

What I would do is load FSX with AI set to 0. Start OPUS and let it completely download and inject weather. Then set AI to what traffic setting you like. If there is a weather update that causes a different runway assignment then  the AI being (injected) within (AI are spawned about 40-50 from the airport) range of the airport SHOULD be assigned the new runway. You'll see a shift of AI from using the old configuration to the new one as ATC assigns new expected runways. IF it works the way it should.

 

That is my take on it.

Never thought of doing that. Darn good idea :good:

Thank you. I think what happens most of the time is when people load their FS it is using the fair winds default along with how you have your airport configured with active or non active runways from your airport files (which can always be edited by ADE and such). Starting your FS with no AI and letting weather load and settle in and then adding AI along with the new enhancements with the new BETA should have your AI using the proper runways.

Just tried it, and worked nicely. My start up flight always starts with "Clear" weather theme. This new beta works really well. very pleased.

We are very pleased with it at as well :smile: . Got a few more tweaks such as improving the FP Options dialog usage, saving the flight plan on program extit, including country codes in the list of nav aids and waypoints, etc., then we will post it as Release Version 3.1. We are also making a start on the next phase of development - generating the OpusFlightReport.txt file, I might also see about adding an En Route Weather Overview report for display on the screen.

 

Stephen

 

 

The AS2012 weather works seamlessly with it.

 

Now as a long term AS user prior to switching to Opus, that's nonsense.

 

Point 1 of the OP was about high TATs & SATs.  The Avsim ActiveSky forum is riddled with complaints about inaccurate high air temperatures causing aircraft like the MD-11 and the 737NGX to lose engine power & altitude uncontrollably.  To be fair to Hi-Fi, they argued that FSX was at fault but most people disbelieved them.  Opus are now saying the same thing so I suspect I owe As an apology.  I should say I had repeated temperature problems in AS but have never had one yet in Opus.  Neither have I had the uncontrolled wind changes that at one time caused the MD-11 and the 737NGX fish-tail wildly in AS.

 

Another point cropping up here is selection of the wrong active runway, either for AI or the user aircraft.  It took a long time for AS to get that cracked but they did.  Opus is retreading that path.  

 

On the point of fidelity to individual en route metars, may be I'm not that finicky,  What I do know is that from the moment I started using Opus, it LOOKED far better than AS did at that stage. 

Thanks aichim

 

We are not really interested in retreading any path of AS. Our weather injection methods are completely different, they are undocumented methods pioneered and developed by ourselves. After a great deal of development we found these methods were the ONLY methods that provided REAL WORLD varied and detailed weather. Weather you could fly to, around, through, and return to !
 
No other method of weather injection works, and yes, we did try the same method used by AS !
 
The weather injected by Opus is completely different and not globalised. We inject REAL WORLD weather that is changeable from place to place, giving RW varied weather condition that simply is NOT possible with any METAR injection method within FSX. Our method also allows us to interpolate the weather using far supperior methods than the very simplistic weather interpolation provided within FSX, something you cannot get away from if you inject METARs into FSX, the only method documented and used until the Opus LWE.
 
We have combined our excellent heuristic weather interpolation with perfect geodesic mapping within the simulator to load the weather and surface conditions in a way that AS cannot use, the result, perfect alignment and perfect destination weather from over 240km away.

You will be pleased to know we have just posted Beta Version 3.04.0, please see the Announcements on SimForums.
 
Stephen :smile:

Thank you for your comments Ailchim.

 

Very glad to hear you are enjoying the LWE. To save you going to SimForums I thought you might be interested in seeing the Announcements. Feel free to participate in the Beta Dev Cycles. We will be posting Release Version 3.1 soon and then immediately starting the next phase of the Flight Planning Assistant - generating the OpusFlightReport.txt file and hopefully adding an Opus En Route Weather Summary for display on the FSX screen. :good:

 

OpusFSX Beta Version 3.04.0 is now available for download on our website.

 

Remember when installing the OpusFSX_v304_Beta.msi file you must uninstall your current version before installing the new version (do not delete your previous \OpusFSX installation folder).

 

After installing please check all the settings in your Configure and Weather dialogues. You can download from http://www.opussoftware.co.uk/opusfsi/downloads.htm

 

The user specified flight plan is now saved on program exit and initialised on program start up. The Flight Plan Options dialog has been changed to include 'Process the Flight Plan' and 'Done' button options. The Process option will decode the current flight plan string in the Flight Plan text box and display the result in the Identified Navigation Points box. Press Done or close the dialog when finished. Two letter country codes have been appended to the navigation aids and waypoints, where they exist, within the navigation points list.

 

To delete a flight plan simply open the Flight Plan Options dialog, delete the flight plan text and press the Process button.

 

I have corrected a problem decoding flight plans containing duplicate navigation aids and waypoints, previous beta would not delete the duplicate under certain circumstances.

 

The default 'Adjust Options Automatically' option combined with 'Use Maximum Stabilisation' option no longer alters the 'Stabilised GRIB Data' option within the Weather Download Options dialog. The 'Stabilised GRIB Data' option which prevents the upper winds from changing during the flight must now be set manually by the user. The recommended setting is OFF.

 

Regards

Stephen