6 minutes ago, Rudiii said:

I shall be sitting down shortly to watch some video reviews to get another perspective to Avsim.

For $21.95, why no try it and find out for yourself, I heading that way myself.

Edited January 18, 20224 yr by CarlosF

12 minutes ago, Rudiii said:

The major thing that attracts me to REX is having weather presets that are dynamic. I would probably be more inclined to choose a weather preset if I knew it wasn't going to be identical for the entire flight.

The Rex weather presets do show different weather in different directions.  I recently tried the approaching cold front preset. The sky was blue in one direction, but in the other some towering clouds with visible rain.  I don't know how this would look over a long flight as my flights are normally local.

2 hours ago, SuperKaro2014 said:

Started using Rex Weather during the recent MSFS Live Weather outage.

I am experiencing a significant negative impact on sim performance during the periods where Rex updates and/or transistions the weather. Frame rates become choppy no matter which setting combination I try.

The solution I have been offered on their Discord is to switch to instantaneous transitions rather than gradual... which kind of defeats the purpose.

Granted, the weather looks good, but in my eyes it is not better than what MSFS native weather offers for now. I have switched back.

I am a casual simmer, and my rig is reasonably beefy: 

Intel Core i7-10700KF, 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Asus GeForce RTX 3070 8GB TUF

Do you notice your altitude jumping up and down at transitions too? I don't know if it's REX-induced turbulence or the changes in pressure during METAR updates, but it's so annoying.

One nice thing about REX is that it can export to Pilot2ATC so that the ATIS and weather is in sync.

Edited January 18, 20224 yr by Room112

@Room112... I think that is just the pressure changing and the altimeter reacting?

The plane itself stays at the altitude it was at.

@Rudiii I fell for it during the MSFS weather otage and purchased it in a bundle with the other 2 products they sell. In my case (flying in Europe) REX WF was 80% a miss regarding weather representation. In most of the cases the weather was "better" (as in sunnier) as it should have been.

I went many times to LOWI webcams and fired up REX: webcam shows OVC, METAR reports OVC, REX shows many clouds but with blue skies in between....this has happened a LOT.

I also experienced abrupt changes during flight but this is not realy entierly REX fault IMHO but the lack of SDK and the fact that the weather system is still closed by ASOBO.

I kind of do blame REX because I thought that they require you to input a FPLN so they can chech the weather upfront along the route and then inject it way in front of the ACFT....well...this does not happen. Altimeter jumps all around, speed jumps around as wind changes....nope...I'm not impressed by it.

AccuSeason works prety well on my end...

9 minutes ago, GEKtheReaper said:

@Rudiii I fell for it during the MSFS weather otage and purchased it in a bundle with the other 2 products they sell. In my case (flying in Europe) REX WF was 80% a miss regarding weather representation. In most of the cases the weather was "better" (as in sunnier) as it should have been.

I went many times to LOWI webcams and fired up REX: webcam shows OVC, METAR reports OVC, REX shows many clouds but with blue skies in between....this has happened a LOT.

I also experienced abrupt changes during flight but this is not realy entierly REX fault IMHO but the lack of SDK and the fact that the weather system is still closed by ASOBO.

I kind of do blame REX because I thought that they require you to input a FPLN so they can chech the weather upfront along the route and then inject it way in front of the ACFT....well...this does not happen. Altimeter jumps all around, speed jumps around as wind changes....nope...I'm not impressed by it.

AccuSeason works prety well on my end...

Yeah the flight plan thing doesn't make any sense to me. The majority of my flying is VFR/Marginal VFR and many of my flights have unscheduled stops and changes. 

Edited January 18, 20224 yr by Rudiii

1 hour ago, Room112 said:

Do you notice your altitude jumping up and down at transitions too? I don't know if it's REX-induced turbulence or the changes in pressure during METAR updates, but it's so annoying.

One nice thing about REX is that it can export to Pilot2ATC so that the ATIS and weather is in sync.

YES! This seems new in the latest REX update. I just noticed it on my last flight in the Seneca. Every 5 minutes the plane would gain 500 feet of altitude instantly then the AP would pull it back down. Got yelled at plenty by ATC!