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FSX Real Time Weather. Working or not? |
DVA3419
Captain, MD-88
Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Propellers keep you kewl!"
Newark, DE
67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs,
82.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 08:30 ET by Norm Hare
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Can someone confirm for me whether or not FSX real time weather still works. Have read some older posts on the internet that it wasn't for a time. Presently, mine seems to be stuck on heavy rain @ 75° and has been this way for the last week since I've tried to use it.
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DVA7171
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on March 14 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Seven Century Club
Black Pearl Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Walk away from all your landings..."
Sebring, FL
725 legs, 1,676.2 hours
573 legs,
1,401.2 hours online
716 legs,
1,660.6 hours ACARS
56 legs,
127.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 10:22 ET by Sergio Lopez
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I believe not.
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DVA3419
Captain, MD-88
Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Propellers keep you kewl!"
Newark, DE
67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs,
82.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 10:34 ET by Norm Hare
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I suspected as much. Doesn't seem to work on FSXSE either...bummer
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DVA7171
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on March 14 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Seven Century Club
Black Pearl Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Walk away from all your landings..."
Sebring, FL
725 legs, 1,676.2 hours
573 legs,
1,401.2 hours online
716 legs,
1,660.6 hours ACARS
56 legs,
127.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 14:39 ET by Sergio Lopez
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Active Sky Next for the win....or that other free one out there.
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DVA3419
Captain, MD-88
Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Propellers keep you kewl!"
Newark, DE
67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs,
82.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 15:54 ET by Norm Hare
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I downloaded and installed FSRealWX (free one) and it seems to work. I'm holding off on spending any frivolous money right now as my employment status has recently changed.
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DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA
154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs,
218.1 hours online
153 legs,
321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs,
8.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 16:08 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
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If you have ASE 2012, it works just fine now as long as you have the latest FSUIPC installed.
Kenneth DickersonFirst Officer, A330-300
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DVA3419
Captain, MD-88
Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Propellers keep you kewl!"
Newark, DE
67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs,
82.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 16:14 ET by Norm Hare
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Nope. Never used anything but what was built into FSX for weather.
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DVA11781
Captain, MD-11
Joined on October 03 2013
Everett 250 Club
Million Mile Club
DVA Two-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club
Northeastern United States
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Posted onPost created on
January 06 2015 16:35 ET by Joe Cappelo
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FSX Realtime weather use to be provided by Jeppesen. The contract that Jeppesen and Microsoft had for the realtime weather was expired or cancelled way back when, and the realtime weather was stuck at whatever the last update was. So therefore it will always be the same. I suggest Active Sky Next, or Active Sky. REX weather is not as good, but ok. FSrealwx is good too and it is free.
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DVA5857
Captain, B767-300
Joined on April 23 2008
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Quincentenary Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Northeastern United States
515 legs, 1,054.0 hours
502 legs,
1,022.2 hours online
513 legs,
1,050.8 hours ACARS
15 legs,
33.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 29 2015 01:24 ET by Chuck Angle
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I know very little about the weather modification programs. I am looking for a program to give me more realistic weather during instrument approaches, any recommendations would be appreciated. Do any of them put heavy snow on the ground?
Chuck AngleCaptain, B767-300
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DVA11957
Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on February 02 2014
DVA One-Year Anniversary
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett Century Club
Events Century Club
"Fly everything, it never hurts."
Centereach, NY
290 legs, 843.0 hours
256 legs,
779.3 hours online
276 legs,
797.1 hours ACARS
117 legs,
260.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 29 2015 06:45 ET by Darren Tung
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Here's the thing. FSX real weather does work. I've tried it with FSX DX SP2 on Win 8.1. As for more realistic weather programs, I can recommend ASN, OPUS, and probably your best bet on realism, FS Global Real Weather.
Darren TungCaptain, MD-11
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