If you'd like, I'd be happy to send you screen shots of each of the menus I've set up for FSX.īest of Luck Donovan Posts: 90 Joined: Wed 12:08 pm Location: KCMA I'm sure there are other pilots here that use P3D that are knowledgeable about Opus. I have had great experience (your mileage may vary) with Opus, so I've no reason to change to ASN at this point. Similar to Merv's opinion, I've heard very good things about ASN. I have not tried Active Sky Next, but I did find Opus FSX much better at real-time weather simulation than Active Sky Evolution which I used for over a year.
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I couldn't be happier with Opus (of course the caveat is that ANY simulator rendition has its limitations - it is a simulator) Last night, (after PE hours) flying into KSMF (NorCal) had Metars reporting overcast down to 600' agl, and that is exactly what I found, sweating it out as I descended towards decision altitude, and broke through to land just as reported. For example, METARs for my flight into KSMO yesterday reported visibility at 4sm in haze/mist and that is exactly what I got from Opus when approaching KSMO. (I can look out my back window and see the KCMA airfield beacon a couple of miles from here).
I've used Opus FSX / FSI for about 8 months as my weather engine and REX-4 Texture Direct for the cloud textures, and have found the weather depictions to be amazingly accurate and in alignment with both the METARS, and what I see out my own window. Have you tried posing in one of the Opus Support Forums: (else you will have a static weather theme)
Stated in the Opus guide "If you fail to do this correctly you will be unable to select and activate any dynamic weather or weather themes." Also, double check the the Weather button on the main Opus screen and select by checkmark Dynamic Live Weather - enable by checkmark the Adjust Options Automatically and set your Destination and Max Cruise Altitude if known, no need to set anything else unless you wish to tweak the settings. If you've changed the default P3D folder location then you must restart the FSXSERVER program. What are you using for the weather textures? Can you manually set other weather? Do you have weather settings in FSUIPC (if you use FSUIPC) that may be conflicting with Opus Weather? If you haven't already, open Opus and double check the Configure page, the folder locations for P3D are correct, then close Opus, run P3D and then run OpusFSX. SOMETHING is not right here, and because I am on FSX and not P3D, I'm not genned-in on the operational differences between P3D and FSX, but it doesn't just ring true that its Opus per se.