7 hours ago, jrw4 said:

That seems harsh. On the principle of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" it would be good to see actual comparisons between the REX injected weather and early FS9, i.e. screen shots. I agree completely that the default MSFS weather depiction is superior to anything I have ever seen before and would also agree that when the bugs are worked out of Live Weather, I will have no need for REX, Active Sky, or most any other imaginable weather add-on.

All of the usual mileage disclaimers apply......

I don't see anything not factual about what Dillon Stated. The only difference screenshots are going to show is in graphical fidelity between the two sims.. Apart from that the background process and method process to deliver the weather into the sim appears to either be the same or similar. 

It's really a "pick your poison" kind of thing.  I think most would agree that when MSFS live weather is working properly, that's the preferred go-to setting.  But when it's not, that's when you decide what you're willing to live with.  Do you go with haze and seamless weather changes, or do you go with no haze and pop-in weather changes that this tool employs (even as they attempt to smooth it out to some extent to varying degrees of success/non-success). 

6 hours ago, bean_sprout said:

MSFS weather is a magnificent replication of nature's own and reverting to old school injected wx would not be an option for me.  

This Filbert Flys vid from a week ago really shows off MSFS sky's greatness.

AND remember, patience is a virtue. 

 bs

A "magnificent replication of nature's own," my word not allowed.  Let me give you a simple example from yesterday.  I went to KRNT to fly a few touch-and-gos.  The airport elevation in the sim is 27' above sea level (other sources have it at 32', but the difference is insignificant).  The METAR had scattered clouds at 2700'.  I take off, climb to 1000'...and find myself in the clouds.  I have to descend to 400' until I can even make out the runway.  Personally, I don't give a good word not allowed how pretty the eye-candy is, if it makes VFR flying impossible in stated VFR conditions, any "sky greatness" is meaningless to me.  The old jibe about MSFS was that, at its current stage of development, it was merely a "VFR simulator" -- until they get the cloud levels and haze fixed, it isn't even that anymore, it's merely a "flying blind simulator," or maybe a "CFIT simulator."

Interesting perspective but not relevant  to me.  Good post.

bs

Edited December 2, 20214 yr by bean_sprout

18 hours ago, JDWalley said:

I saw a post on the official forums about a week ago on one of the threads complaining about post-SU7 weather problems in which someone said that using REX Weather Force solved the problems -- but the poster didn't specify that one of the problems it solved was the omnipresent haze.   Has anyone tested this out yet?

Based on my flight today my response is no.  It appears to be an issue in the sim itself.  I had the same haze when switching back and forth between MSFS live and REX WF.  Had plenty of time to work with it as it was a three hour flight from Indiana to St Pete, Florida.  I allowed time for transitions to complete, and verified the completed transitions by observing winds aloft and altimeter settings (using the B key).

Edited December 3, 20214 yr by fppilot