XPrealWX / FSrealWX

[Humpty 751]

Hey can you please tell what port number are you using ? 23500 ? 

[deetee 164]

Does it allow weather fronts (particularly cloud fronts) to be flown away from and into rather than simply making them suddenly disappear or appear around the plane?

 

I don't see that happening, it just seems to set the weather around the plane to whatever the nearest station is reporting.

Trouble is, if you're flying somewhere like Australia where there is not always a nearby weather station, FSrealWX Pro will not interpolate; it just clears all weather and says "no weather station in range" or words to that effect. It has potential but needs more work.

 

Does it work with NOAA plugin? 

 

It does the same thing as far as I can gather, so no need to use both together.

[scotchegg 4,159]

That's disappointing. I'd really love a weather engine that allowed you to see clouds and weather systems in the distance and allow you to fly into or avoid them. Basically a weather engine that doesn't just suddenly throw weather at you or take it away from you.

 

So Deetee, in your feeling it's doing exactly the same job as the NOAA plugin?

[deetee 164]

So Deetee, in your feeling it's doing exactly the same job as the NOAA plugin?

I'm no expert, far from it, but it seems do the upper winds thing okay.

Give it a try - it's not difficult to set up. Just need to put your PC's IP address into FSrealWX, so it picks up the XP server plugin.

[razalom 19]

So far it seems ok but I did check with ASN and selected places that had rain and then went to that airport in XP and it had no rain sadly so might not have it working correctly yet.

 

EDIT : And then a few mins later it all starts working

[mdavis 10]

It might depend on the frequency of METAR polls and/or the speed of the downloads.  Admittedly, I have not installed one of these weather engines in XPX yet, but my experience with ActiveSky in FSX shows similar lags.  Apparently all METAR reports are downloaded at once in AS and then the server is polled at adjustable intervals.  AS also does a good job of "smoothing" between METAR reporting stations which may delay a weather update.

[Humpty 751]

The Pro version always does not get the servers. At least for my country certain airports to the north are not getting any weather due it not being able to find the stations.

[rototom 198]

It works ok but it's going to need a lot more work if they plan to release it as payware. The overcast layers are horrible. There is no depth to them and I'm never flying in fog. I'm currently leaning toward the NOAA plugin.