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To me realistic weather plays a big role in the simulator and therefore I got curious after reading the Stratawx propaganda and I bought it to try it out. To be honest, I am disappointed. It is in no way better than AS. It has the same well known preset flaws as the visible transitions. You are, as in AS in a weather bubble with the same cloud scape all around you. The volcanic ashes clouds are back (!) and Cb clouds get for instance a top of 35000 ft and a base of 30000ft and a sharp cut at the base, absolutely strange looking. Turbulence is a joke. It is comparable to the in sim realistic turbulence setting. There is no slider to tame it a bit, therefore the choice of chosing an overlay which makes it even worse. My Fenix A320 was dancing around like crazy. An it looks as if they provided a kind of in build shader than I never saw cloud shadows on the ground that black (using HDR). The design of the app (UI?) is modern and beautifully done, but I think the weather features are more important than that. On the other hand, nearly every time you start Stratawx, an update is uploaded in the background so they seem to try to optimise things. But to me AS is convincing enough and above all, more honest. HansW

I use the perfectsoft GMMX. On flightsim.to you can find a file called zzz-marrakech-nostatic for the community folder to remove the static aircraft. Succes!

I cannot remember if it happend before the CU14 update, but with the Flytampa EHAM scenery I was on taxiway B on my way to RW 36L when all of a sudden I broke through the bridge over the highway A4. End of the game… I tried the Gaya version which was fine, but that‘s not a serious alternative. Hans W

Since the latest update all my installed A319 liveries in MSFS2024 won‘t show up in the aircraft list. The A320 and 321 are as expected. Anyone? Hans W

Under Atmos presets you will find FILOU-ORBX "Everybody s looking for something". I think this is the one and I am using it everyday. Enjoy!

Thank you, your solution works!

Hi, after the latest update to version 1.0.0 my viewpoint in VR is about 30 meters forward and about 5 meters above the cockpit. I did a reinstall which didn't change anything, uninstalled and deleted every single trace of iFly. Reinstalled again and besides a normal 2D, the VR position stayed wrong. On the internet I didn't find equal complaints about this feature. Anyone? Regards, Hans Wijnroks

My trim settings are unticked. But I tried a flight with your trim settings activated, D8 2613 ESSA-EFHK to deal with your eventually Swedish atmospheric oddities but everything went fine. I am sorry that I cannot help you. Eventually have a look in the MSFS assistance settings, something could interfere from there.

I use the same one, CLS-E. Working great. But I must admit, sometimes I think my life would be easier with a Yoko. Then, which settings are realistic? 🤥

Richard, you software looks entirely different as mine. Center deadzone is just below Synchronisation. Do you have the latest Software version v 5.7.23?

I am no computer virtuoso to be able to deliver screen shots but I hope describing is also possible. I use pretty much the virgin default settings in the Brunner software: Effects: only stick shaker enabled with the default settings. Buttons: only 4 & 5 enabled as trim Axis Range settings: center deadzone 0.04 for pitch and roll but not enabled (?), Backlash both 0.001 Axis force settings: Default, max speed 450 TAS (I use TAS under General) Autopilot: completely disabled. So, no yoke movements, but I can live with it. And I got to dislike it because disconnecting the autopilot caused a harsh and vigorous push into my hands. Hydraulics: Hydraulics force for pitch and roll 500 (inspired by your profiles in the Brunner profile cloud!) Gives a nice stiff feeling! Hydraulics Failure Force 1000 for both. Use hydraulic system integrity RawData enabled.

Hi, I use the Brunner yoke as well and didn't have any abnormal behaviour with the iFly max. Could it be that you use the yoke software with autopilot pitch and roll enabled? I think you will be fine after disabling.

Hi fppilot, I will try FSGRW again. What I did not find that realistic with FSGRW were the thin stratus layers which were generated much too often, even in heavy rain. Towering cumulonimbis in the METAR are in FSGRW always producing flashing lights and thunder. In the real world this is not always the case. FSGRW has some sliders for the weather radius, visibility etc. You will find it under Tools (menubar). Regards, Hans

Hi, I just read your post and as not being a troll I can try to explain my point. I am a simmer since FS4. And since the first commercial weather addons were published, I bought them all. FSMeteo, all the HiFi produkts from the beginning, FSGRW, OpusFSX, ASN and OpusFSI. The weather part in flight simulation is important to me. And I know that some people will not agree with me but when I am looking out of my window not far from Bern Airport (LSZB) I would like to see the same cloud scape and weather front from the west in FSX as in real life. OpusFSI is most of the time spot on. The others are not. Also compared with weathercams, which are available from all over the world, is allways in favour of OpusFSI. And the real world weather does not change that dramaticaly within one hour METAR difference that it decides about overcast or CAVOK. I like weather addons which are programmed in such a way that the influence of wind and turbulence are as it would be in the real world. I don't want to have sliders which let's me decide if I want up an down winds between 0 or 5000 ft/mn. That's nice for a weather games!. The developers of OPUS are real world pilots, they spent every spare minute in the air. Therefore, to me, they have a high credibility what weather simulation concerns. Then the dll: I have made the experience that the dll of ASN has a negative impact on the fidility of the other weather addons, they are not functioning properly. Stephen (one of the OPUS developers) explained on Simforums.com why. You may search for it if you like. But in the meantime I don't think it is all too fair towards the other competitors. And I thought that it should be well known that this dll consumes a sometimes critical mass of VAS, it has been discussed on the Internet several times. I know that ASN has a lot of fans and that's fine fore them and for Damian. I felt the urge of lobbying a bit for OPUS as a lot of people seem to think ASN is the holy weather grail, not aware of, or ignoring some negative characteristics of ASN. Kind regards, Hans

If you are interested in a WEATHER engine which depicts the real weather situation at a certain moment and place, it is OpusFSI. ASN gives you nice cloudscapes and other features which are nothing more than belonging to a kind of weather game. The bigger problem: it puts a dreadfull dll in your flightsim directory which eats a lot of VAS but offers a nice (fake)radar echo on the ND in your PMDG products. In the meantime you will hardly be able to complete a long PMDG flight because of the VAS consumption. Then, if you have ASN installed, but would like to try out another payware weather programm, you will be unable to try the virtues of the competitors because this dll blocks their fidility. It would be fair if the ASN guys would have named this dll : BoycottCompetitors.dll . I have bought an tried all the HiFi simulation products but my conclusion, as a meteorology freak, was always: it's a pity, Damian never gets it right.......sorry!

If you are interested in a WEATHER engine which depicts the real weather situation at a certain moment and place, it is OpusFSI. ASN gives you nice cloudscapes and other features which are nothing more than belonging to a kind of weather game. The bigger problem: it puts a dreadfull dll in your flightsim directory which eats a lot of VAS but offers a nice (fake)radar echo on the ND in your PMDG products. In the meantime you will hardly be able to complete a long PMDG flight because of the VAS consumption. Then, if you have ASN installed, but would like to try out another payware weather programm, you will be unable to try the virtues of the competitors because this dll blocks their fidility. It would be fair if the ASN guys would have named this dll : BoycottCompetitors.dll . I have bought an tried all the HiFi simulation products but my conclusion, as a meteorology freak, was always: it's a pity, Damian never gets it right.......sorry!

A couple of weeks ago, after a flight, the captain was so kind to let me sit in the captain's seat of a Boeing 737-700 NG. With WideViewAspect=true, TrackIR, and a zoom setting in the VC of 0.9 (Monitor 1920x1200) I get exactly the view as in the real plane. In real life it is extremely small and narrow on a flightdeck. Therefore 0.5 etc. is highly unrealistic! Hans

Sorry Lawyer-P, my ASN trialperiod allready expired, so no comparison screenshots. You can trust me ;-) But try for yourself. The german site http://www.wetterklima.de offers a lot of weathercams from all over the world.

Ses, what you are describing sounds nice. I use OPUS and tried the trial version of ASN and I think it depends what you are expecting from weather simulation software. To me, flying around in FSX, is a kind of mental travelling. When I look at the cloudscape in the sim, for instance in San Fransisco, I want to see the same cloudscape as someone who lives in SF and who looks at the same moment to the real sky. I compared the cloud depiction of both programms with weathercams which you can find all over the internet. OPUS was always spot on, absolutely amazing. ASN hardly ever! When I get turbulence, I want to experience the amount of turbulence I would get as a rw-pilot at that moment at that place and not a kind of at random heavy shaking. I trust OPUS a bit more and tend to believe that OPUS ist more about depiction of the real atmosphere. ASN might be more about aesthetics and fun. Regards, Hans

Hi Bernd, It was between 16-18 hrs. UTC. I tried Perpignan, La Rochelle, Ibiza, San Diego, and a couple of others which I forgot in the meantime. I compared the FSX-picture with weathercams which you can find on www.wetterklima.de Regards, Hans Wijnroks

I bought FS GlobalRW a couple of days ago. This afternoon I tried the weatherdepiction, especially the cloudscapes generated by FSGRW and Opus and I compared them with weathercams for the same place. Opus was always spot on, like I would be there. FSGRW generated f.i. broken clouds where it should be clear and light stratuslayers where the weathercam showed a thick overcast and heavy rain. I was a bit disappointed, I think for the moment Opus is my favourite. Hans Wijnroks

Stephan normally I am only a reading participant of this forum, but now I really must must say something. THERE IS NO NEED TO APOLOGISE!! The Opus weather programm is the best there is. I am simulating since FS4 and dreamed ever since about a realistic weather environment. With Opus this dream came through, amazing! Now, if someone, obviously ignoring his stupidity, is shouting out on the internet that Opus is not offering METAR's for Europe, you have the right to defend your programm (and yourself). The words you chose are completely allright, allso towards a "paying customer". The paying customer is not the king nor the emperor and cannot afford himself anything he likes. I am running a clinic for physio- and manualtherapy. I have a lot of "paying customers" to treat. But if some of them is not respectfull or bad mannered towards me, I send them away with the message of never coming back again. Please, can we stop forcing hard working developers to be slave for the holy paying customer. Regards, Hans Wijnroks

I have to say something in favour of the Saitek yoke. I stopped using the CH-yoke because of calibration items, unusable after only a couple of years. Now I have got the Saitek Cessna yoke and I am extremely happy. First of all you can turn 90° to the left and right, like RW. You get a seperate throttle device so you don't have a mess with your right hand, controlling power, and the yoke which should turn to the left. And I love the detent. From a RW trial-flight in a Piper Archer I remember handling the yoke very well and the detent simulates the forces against airflow and the stability of a well trimmed airplane very good. Flying a heavy down the glideslope is, with proper pitch and powersetting, rockstable now and reminds me of a DC-10 captain who once said: landing a DC-10 is so easy, it's a shame we are getting payed for it.Hans

Hi, strange that I had never heard about this twaek, but I have tried it and on my machine it is a real and signifikant improvement. I am very happy with the results and, as a being sceptic towards tweaks, this one is definitively no placebo. It was obviously the last tweak I needed for being completely happy: the terrain around me doesn't show blurred patches anymore as usual. The terrain engine is switching much faster to a higher mip level and for instance, the roads of Ultimate Terrain are now sharp along their way to the horizon. My sim looks now as crisp and sharp like the famous screen shots by FengZ, beautiful. Thanks a lot! Hans W.

Hi Jim, I just wanted to give you the feedback that the fresh install works. I am very happy that I have got AS6.5 back.Thanks's a lot, Hans W.