REX Weather Force 2020 for Microsoft's Flight Simulator

[Thomasso 224]

2 minutes ago, Colonel X said:

The question is, was the weather closer to reality than stock weather?

It is, yes. The weather at airports is spot on.

[Adrian123 1,015]

Setting at my home airport KDSM, Default weather engine and looking out my home window, the weather is spot on. Broken cloud cover and wind direction. Even the windsock is perfect though the G1000 weather is incorrect but that the G1000 modeling. Guess if it assures the airport weather is depicted exactly every time, it would be worth the 20 or so bucks.

[spearmint_flyer 579]

Here is my report after using it for 8 hours. 

Flight 1 - A32N - KORD-KJFK - Weather injection was accurate according to the METAR. Visually it was very pleasing and it used more cloud coverage and realistic skies than the default weather. 
CONS - The winds were not uploading as I climbed out of the airport. Almost as if the winds were stuck at what was at the ground for the speed an airliner climbs through the weather system. As I climbed there was also no change in the cloud coverage, when it did change it was a gradual change. 
At times, the weather gets in a never-ending change loop: As I approached JFK I noticed the weather did not want to change. It would load the new weather synopsis. Only to see the clouds disappear. Then it would load the clouds again and then disappear again. It only stopped that cycle when I reset the Start Weather Synthesis button. 

Flight 2 - KJFK - MDSD:
I picked this route as I wanted to see what the weather engine would do when I flew over a vast body of water with no land nearby. This is where I was disappointed.
CONS:
The engine grabs the nearest weather which may be far away. In one instance I was flying well over 200 miles away from the station and it chooses to interpolate data from KOXB which yeah I guess it was the closest but it may in no way be what I am supposed to see. 
Landing at MDSD was amazing. This is where the engine took me and brought immersion. As I approached Santo Domingo I noticed the TS remark on the METAR. Called for an exciting approach and boy it was. As I approached the CB clouds with lightning coming from 3 cells became monstrous. The engine also knew that when I flew in or around the clouds it would begin raining. It made me realize in a SIM how dangerous these thunderstorms can be as one was right on my approach path and it was a clear go-around decision in a visual approach. 
Overall I am pleasantly pleased. I think REX has an opportunity to begin creating data stations with interpolated data like HIFI does for places where the data does not exist. They are on to something but it needs that final push. 

 

Here are two images from my sessions today

 

 

[mccurdypm 57]

I decided to purchase this and there is definitely an improvement with weather depiction, compared to the stock weather engine. Definitely room for improvements but am quite pleased with the results overall.

[Jetman67 517]

1 hour ago, Adrian123 said:

Setting at my home airport KDSM, Default weather engine and looking out my home window, the weather is spot on. Broken cloud cover and wind direction. Even the windsock is perfect though the G1000 weather is incorrect but that the G1000 modeling. Guess if it assures the airport weather is depicted exactly every time, it would be worth the 20 or so bucks.

I'd be all in except for reports of large fps loss in clouds

[Ricardo41 5,949]

"I will never buy this product"

"For sure, I will never buy this product"

"I've watched many youtube vidoes, and I will never buy this product"

"Hell is gonna freeze over before I buy this product"

"Buy this product? Never!"

"This product is unbuyable"

"My money stays in my pocket. Will never buy this product"

Ok, we get it, you'll never buy this product. 

Can we move on, now?

[RW1 615]

5 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Can we move on, now?

I agree, Too many ppl here with personal grudges, It's not perfect, REX have always stood by me from day 1 and i will continue to support them in the future.

[JasonPC 173]

I have to say I have seen some issues with a couple of the METARs that the program is pulling from. There were some major accuracy problems and if I checked from foreflight, a completely different metar was read from what was being reported in weather force. It's the exception not the rule, but like I say there's been a couple.

[himmelhorse 1,276]

 

Ricardo41 quoted:-

"I will never buy this product"

"For sure, I will never buy this product"

"I've watched many youtube vidoes, and I will never buy this product"

"Hell is gonna freeze over before I buy this product"

"Buy this product? Never!"

"This product is unbuyable"

"My money stays in my pocket. Will never buy this product"

Ok, we get it, you'll never buy this product. 

Can we move on, now?

If memory serves me well , this gentleman has bought and whinged about many REX products, or at least stated that he has.  If he is really that upset with REX and their products, I wonder if he will still be buying them in 2050 (if he is young enough of course) I know for sure that I won't be. It is my impression that whatever problems he has with REX, he is at least very professional about the complaints. So sad.

 

I do however, plan in the meantime, to continue buying REX products (finances permitting) until I am just too old and feeble to climb laboriously into my computer chair. That may take place next week LOL.

From my point of view, I have never had a complaint about the quality of the products I have previously purchased and further, have had no support or communication problems with REX either.  Even if they do produce and sell a "clanger" I have faith in the fact that it will be fixed.  There again, my cup is half full.

Tony

[Deimos 45]

On 9/26/2020 at 6:44 AM, marsman2020 said:

Disabling UAC as recommended in the manual for this software is a really bad security practice.

Pretty much this. I use a lot of commercial software with copy protection. None of them require antivirus or UAC to be turned off.

I set up a new machine for MSFS 2020 and I said to myself that this time I will not accept copy protection that forces me to do such things. Be it from Flight1 or Rex or whomever else. I would give this software a shot, but flight sim addon developers really need to get a grip on their „security“ measures. Maybe most of the people here are not bothered by this, good for them. I for one will not install potentially malicious software that is not able to pass industry standard security checks.

Edited September 28, 2020 by Deimos

[timest 472]

25 minutes ago, Deimos said:

Pretty much this. I use a lot of commercial software with copy protection. None of them require antivirus or UAC to be turned off.

I set up a new machine for MSFS 2020 and I said to myself that this time I will not accept copy protection that forces me to do such things. Be it from Flight1 or Rex or whomever else. I would give this software a shot, but flight sim addon developers really need to get a grip on their „security“ measures. Maybe most of the people here are not bothered by this, good for them. I for one will not install potentially malicious software that is not able to pass industry standard security checks.

It’s not required. 

[RW1 615]

So i did a quick video of REX Weather Force 2020 injecting weather between reporting weather stations in NZ, I was 50nm from NZWN and 50nm north of NZCH my departure airport @FL370, REX obviously is having a short update here to depict cloud layers at 9000. FPS hit lasted about 15-20 sec all up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyPxkspA8po&ab_channel=RW

[Ricardo41 5,949]

3 hours ago, Jetman67 said:

I'd be all in except for reports of large fps loss in clouds

I'd didn't notice any significant frame rate loos in clouds.

[JRBarrett 3,070]

12 hours ago, Truthan said:

In the screenshots below (taken this morning) are the current GOES-West visible satellite image surrounding Lewiston Idaho (KLWS), vs the MSFS default MeteoBlue weather spawn. The clear area around KLWS is noticeably the same size and proportion with surrounding clouds and totally clear weather to the west as in the Goes-West image. The clearing of clouds as one moves south towards Boise is also evident in the lower portions of each. And for the record, yes, there's a noticable grid pattern, but to be sure, it really only becomes noticeable when MUCH higher than an airliner cruising altitude.

 

How on earth (pun intended) did you get the second photo? Looks like you slewed the drone up about 100 miles? I’ll have to give that a try.

Edited September 28, 2020 by JRBarrett

[Ricardo41 5,949]

Look at the grid patterns here. It's an outrage! I want my money back!!!!

https://www.123rf.com/photo_86958039_in-the-blue-sky-white-cumulus-clouds-arranged-in-a-grid-or-pattern-the-sun-is-shining-and-the-clouds.html