Kamoflarj wrote:You should try opus weather 3.4 very accurate wx report and winds aloft data. (provided you input a good flight plan. This can be created with rebuild. Then import to opus) active sky 2012 is also very good, its more eye candy than opus, because it provides you with better ground and cloud textures, but functionally, is still the same. One thing as2012 does better fun functionally though is it creates variable wind from the metar data. But only varies about 20 degrees from the reported metar, so it won't change runway assignment.
Well, in this case, I think the metar weather was real time (i.e. mid/late afternoon) and the MetServ forecast came from that morning's forecast, so I'm not worried.
FSrWXlite is free, it is a huge improvement on default, and I enjoy the variability it provides. I don't fly in heavy weather unless I want to practice my IFR skills.
I have two FS2004 installs on another machine, one modern, one Classic, and I have REX3 (I think) in one and AS in the other. I set up the weather in them through FSUIPC and the cloud textures etc come from the add-ons. Very nice they look , too.
Sometimes I do full procedurals,. but for viewing the scenery, I get in a nice runabout, take off, and around 6000' decide where I will go, depending on which way I happen to be pointing.
BTW, that other machine has only XP3 and the two FS9.1 installations on it.
It's a sim, I fly it for fun, I get good results within the limitations of my kit - and I'm happy with that.
