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  1. HarryO
    Thanks for the info Cheryl. I tried to find the metar list for OPUS fsx but could not find it. I only have the demo. It would be nice if I could look it up from time to time to see if more real data has become available. 85 stations is still a very tiny amount of data for flying low and slow VFR in a huge region like Australia. Cheers
  2. HarryO
    Hi there Where can I find out how much real world data OpusFSX uses for regions outside of the USA? I am using AS2012 which thinly covers the capital cities of Australia but I don't think much else. I would switch to Opus if it included significantly more data for Australia than AS2012. What would be impressive is if there were actually a list somewhere that showed the density of coverage outside of the USA. Thanks Cheers Harry
  3. HarryO
    I think the problem might be that AS2012 is not designed so that users can add their own regional airports to a list of airports that should be searched for data.AS2012 should have a process on the local machine of each user, that checks for METAR data for these custom user lists, and then combines it with the master download of weather that comes from HIFI. That would be great because it adds flexibility to the system. Users could trade off the downside of inserting more data into FSX without affecting other users who are not interested in that data.I'm only guessing, but AS2012 probably has one master list that applies to all AS2012 users around the world. The problem with that is that if too many regional airports are added to the AS2012 master list, the download and insertion times into FSX are deteriorated for everyone simply because of these regional airports.I'm only guessing! Thinking out loud.Cheers
  4. HarryO
    I haven't used the VATSIM option and I am a regional FSX pilot in Australia under AS2012. How good is the VATSIM weather database for regional areas? Are you saying that AS2012 is not using the entire extent of the VATSIM weather database when that option is turned on? Perhaps there is some physical limit that prevents AS2012 from pumping regional data into FSX?Cheers
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