SoloTwo

Yeah all there stores were down for around 8 hours last night starting around 10pm CST. Annoying when you are trying to throw money at people and they won't let you. Done my research. Its not for me. Too many things that would annoy me, not to mention that the seasons do change and I wouldn't want to be flying around Wisconsin in winter while its snowing only to see green grass and trees from above.

Well I was going to buy the complete Arizona pack but the PC Aviator store has been down for a few hours now...argh.

What scenery were you running in that screenshot with Colorado Springs?

PC Aviator has both the North and Central packages for 50% off, plus the 10% for the labor day special. I recently purchased Flight Beam's KPHX so I'll be flying in the area a bit more. I don't fly VFR, mainly over FL200. Is there any reason I SHOULDN'T purchase it for this price? Also thinking of getting the southern part but that is full price and I'm afraid of it becoming a deal of the day soon after I purchase it... And yes I have the freeware Grand Canyon KGCN scenery as well.

I only use historical weather so I always load Active Sky after my flight has been loaded in and find that it works the best for me. The only time I've had issues was when I left AS open and restarted FSX.

Nice advertisement. The simulated winds aloft is a laughable feature. I just zoomed out to give you a better view I can assure you it doesn't change from outside to the inside. Like I said the clouds are PERFECT when I'm flying over areas where I know there are plenty of weather stations. I only have this problem when I'm flying to PANC from the Seattle area where I know there aren't stations. That screenshot was taken over the Gulf of Alaska. I'm using DWC mode and have Depict Hurricanes, Create Additional Stations, Enhance Route Coverage, and Local Station Writes with DWC all selected. The next time I fly to Alaska I'll have to screw around with the settings and see if I can't find the issue. What kind of cloud settings are you guys using? I have cloud layers set to 5, I have no idea if I should increase or lower that just looks alone not about this issue. I have CAVOK generation to 50%, no data cloud gen to 50% (hrm, maybe the problem?). Cirrus Cloud Generation set to 50, and for some reason Stratus Cloud Occurrence set to 0%.

It only happens when I'm flying in an area without many stations like I stated, I have the cloud density set to 12 and a large draw distance. Its perfect when I'm flying in areas with plenty of stations. As for REX-E, well I have REXOD and it appears I'll be waiting months and months before I can even upgrade. And with REX I have to deal with annoying wind shifts, flashing sky, constantly changing weather when I'm on approach and huge load times. NONE of these things I have to deal with in AS2012...

Bump, anyone have any idea?

If that happens restart AS2012. A couple months ago sometimes if I left Active Sky open after restarted FSX the weather wouldn't sync up and just restarting it would fix the problem.

Simulated winds aloft. Enough said.

I gotta try an resist the urge to buy this and start flying in Europe for the first time and have to buy a ton of scenery in the UK... Perhaps when ORBX starts releasing it if I can wait that long...

I would need about 100 more issues to go back to REX.

Just 2 problems I've been having with AS2012 lately. Whenever I'm flying over a large distance with DWC on and there aren't many weather stations in the area (mostly Alaska, flying from PANC to PASI right now over the Gulf of Alaska) I get extremely annoying weird cloud patterns. Big square areas usually with square holes and it just repeats itself over and over. Also right now when I'm flying over an overcast area clouds only show up in a about 20mi circle around me and appear and disappear around me as I'm flying. Not sure if there is a setting somewhere that I'm missing or what.

Ugh if only someone flew these in the US yet. Growing up the Avro was one of my favorite planes when I would see them back in the good old days at MKE in the Northwestern livery. Just something about a small plane with 4 engines that gets to me.

Meanwhile owners of Rex OD just wait.... I have both and really enjoy AS2012 so much more. Live I've said before the historic weather is perfect and works flawlessly and with the direct weather control feature you never notice sudden wind changes and you don't have to worry about constantly changing weather when you are near your destination. I use some of REX's textures but I use those free high res cloud textures which IMO blow any payware clouds out of the water. Once FSX is running I just open up AS2012 and within a minute I have my weather. Soon this thread will be filled with excuse after excuse and saying its just you that has to deal with the long waits associated with REX.

I said FSX quality. I know about the conversions and I'm not spending that much money to try and jerry rig 2 sceneries.

Well like I stated in my original post I didn't want to futz around with MCE but maybe I should, just feel weird talking to my computer... How do you go about getting cfg's for planes to use in MCE? What if one doesn't exist? Does it tell you what to say or would I have to deal with a huge learning curve? How good is the speech recognition? And how exactly does it interact with RC4?

It seems every problem I always had, had something to do with frequencies. I lost track of how many times I'm handed off center and every time the frequency will be the same as the last. Many times the frequency I'm given is the frequency for something else so neither of them will work. Half the time the unicom frequency will be the same as a WX frequency. I've also been forgot about a few times after takeoff or arrival. After more reading I tried it again the other day after spending 20 or so minutes setting it up with SIDS and STARS and after writing down the departure frequency from clearance. Once I took off tower gave me a totally different frequency for departure, which of course didn't work and the one I was supposed to be using didn't work. I even looked at the generated sheet with all the frequencies. So I turned on RC4 and got to my destination without a problem.

Yeah I have PFE and due to large amounts of rage I don't use it. How is FDC when it comes to using it for aircraft that don't have config files? That's my main worry is that it will be too complicated to configure for new aircraft.

Still waiting on Essentials for Overdrive...... Anywhoo I use some of REXOD's textures but after buying AS2012 not sure I can go back. The historical weather is honestly the best thing that has ever happened to me in flight simming since I usually fly later ant night and having the ability to actually use the real weather for when i want to fly? Simply fantastic. Also the direct weather control that AS2012 uses is great no more annoying abrupt wind shifts and having constant barometer and wind speeds near your destination is great. Once REX can replicate those features I will make the switch perhaps.

Basically I'm just trying to figure out of this program is worth purchasing or not. I've watched videos and I like what I see with the interactions but I'm mostly worried about setting it up for new aircraft that don't have cfg files like the Carenado C90 and a couple other planes that I plan on flying that FS2Crew doesn't support. Yes I know about Multi crew but honestly the learning curve and talking into my computer doesn't really interest me. And lastly, any other suggestions out there to simulate a co-pilot that actually does something?

Managed to get both it and the UPS pack installed and working. Only issue I had is its basically impossible to find the DC-10 Fed Ex repaint for various reasons so I just had to turn all the DC-10 flights into MD-11 flights so no biggie.

How about a regional aircraft that is actually used widely in the real world? I look forward to using the J41 but to fly in the states I will have to make up my own routes.

I would love to do some Horizon Air flying but too bad we don't have a damn FSX quality SEA or PDX. :(

Agree 100%, loved the Flight1 ATR back in FS9 but it does show its age. Still wish PMDG would've spent all those resources on a turboprop that is actually still widely used worldwide like the Saab so I wouldn't have to makeup my own routes to fly with the J41.....