That would be ASN.  Check their feature list.
 

 

I am not saying it is not possible to do it with ASN, I am not sure.

 

What is shown in iFly is NOT reflecting a radar return from airplane radar. At this point.

I am not saying it is not possible to do it with ASN, I am not sure.

 

What is shown in iFly is NOT reflecting a radar return from airplane radar. At this point.

Quite so! The video posted shows nothing more than a typically available Wx radar gauge be it for FS9, FSX or P3D.

 

If one is going to have a sensational title it seems a bit daft to illustrate the point of view with something that is already available and NOT what the poster is having us believe is new!

Quite so! The video posted shows nothing more than a typically available Wx radar gauge be it for FS9, FSX or P3D.

 

If one is going to have a sensational title it seems a bit daft to illustrate the point of view with something that is already available and NOT what the poster is having us believe is new!

 

From one of the dev's below who answered a similiar question, remember this is early development for all, but it is a step in the right direction:

 

 

I am not 100% sure what you mean, but if I have to guess, no we don't do a top down visual.

We scan the area in front of the aircraft in segments depending on the Tilt.

At the moment the development is a 0' Tilt , as development progress we will introduce Tilt and scan at those areas/levels/altitudes.

On the current release everything works in a "box" shape, so the wxr radar image just updates every 10 seconds.

Into future Development ASNext plan to do the radar feed in a "cone" shape, so we will try to introduce a radar sweep action.

There are all sorts of stuff that could be done and that get discuss, and as time progress ASNext will evolve and we will just evolve the iFly-wxr with them.

 

In this post I made a video, you can see on the radar you only see the area where there is precipitation or turbulence, and just the area in front of the aircraft at 0' Tilt.

So is not like the ASN Map that give  you a top down view.

I think it is fully possible that in case of ASN gauge that is shown, it is very much more precise in showing the actual clouds position, unlike other that show approximations.

 

Still, not a weather radar.

Weather radars do not show cloud positions, they show you a reflection of water or ice in the sky. If a cloud has water or ice in it, it will show a reflected image on the radar, if not, it won't.

 

The difference with a 'common' FSX weather radar that does show cloud positions because of FSX's poor weather engine is that with the help of ASN true radar functionality can be obtained. If iFly did this, they're the first to do it and the first to have a TRUE radar that shows actual rain and ice positions.