I totally agree ray..you know my thoughts on FSL at the minute..I did ask how they’re going to get on with the constant updates but apparently it’s not a problem..we on P3D on the other hand have to wait for an update after the sim update..the same goes for active sky..
Evening All,
I am aware that P3D vs MSFS is a polarising debate. Let's leave the dramatic showdowns to other places. It helps my blood pressure.
In the meantime, have a photo of my snoozing Shepherd!
Thanks
Dunc
Steve,
100% - perfect reason to start the thread. No dramas with that at all.
My post was more because we have seen many MSFS threads end up going off the rails recently with MSFS vs P3D debates getting heated. Didn’t want this one to go the same way as there is zero need, and much better venues for those discussions than here.
Dunc
Not that old chestnut again.
Have you seen the pricing? https://www.beyondatc.net/pricing
Pay and pay again it seems. Plus I don’t want something you have to speak to. Comms via push buttons is what I prefer. I look forward to an independent review. It would take something exceptional to beat the vectoring in RC4.
Sorry, not interested. What I have suits me fine.
Yes, I agree it goes some way to satisfying those who want to fly earlier in the day. I only use historical weather in P3D for flights in Asia and Australasia. I set the clock to 01:00 UT for daytime flights in that part of the world. Occasionally I set the day to yesterday for flights in the US.
But will they still have cumulus and no other cloud types? Rhetorical question.
- 24H historical weather : this year
- No better alternative to Radar Contact : this year
- No Concorde : soon, hope this year
Plus the Concorde cockpit will look way way better with a triple digits frame rate looking at your PC config.
Hi Andrew,
The community are eagerly awaiting FSLABS products if you are under some form of NDA then please just say you are under an NDA and cannot talk about future projects. The Concorde at least should be able to share since that is public knowledge.
Nothing since August 15th 2023 people will start to give up on your products, communication is all anyone is asking for.
Kind regards Duncan Odgers
Yes, none of the civil airliners in MSFS have a working wxr…
…apart from the Maddog MD80, the Inibuilds A300, A310, A320, the Working Title B787, B747, the ATR 42 and 72-600’s, the Asobo A320, and all the business jets using the G3000 or GNXi 1000 avionics suite…
It‘s good to see the Asobo is also making progress there. Still, let‘s see what Active Sky can bring to the sim, as none of the civil airliners available features a weather radar yet.
AS, the FSLabs Busses and the combination of the two are probably the only things that I still miss from P3D.
Ahhh....
Here's what Asobo's weather engine gives us at the moment;
As you can see, the wxr detects precipitation data in a 3D cone forward of the aircraft. I can introduce precipitation and the radar will paint it and I can move this precipitation layer up and down through the cone of detection. The range of detection can be changed but there is no tilt mechanism as such. This works well on preset weather and live weather.
It seems to me the problem with Asobo's live weather engine isn't wxr itself but boils down to three items;
Lack of cloud types
Lack of high level weather depiction
Lack of turbulence within heavy weather systems; the wxr can detect it but there's no real need to avoid it in the first place.
Hopefully the release of 2024 will solve these issues.
Not so sure about that ...
Read the product description carefully. Seems this is just another preset-based program, like Rex and XEnviro. As for the historical wx bit, well historical presets would be a better term