P3D4 Real Weather

[SkippyBing]

What are people using for real weather in v4? I had a version of Active Sky for v3 but apparently not the right one to get me the upgrade that works with v4. So before I splash out what seems to be far more cash than I paid for the last version of AS, what other options are there?

[YoYo]

Im user of AS2016, is free update to P3Dv4. The program is amazing and I recomend it.

[gman5250]

+1...what YoYo said.

[evvatc]

+2 to what YoYo said.

[sidler]

I have been using FSrealWXPro.....freeware, for V4, for a few years and it's excellent!


Dick

[patful]

ASP4 and ASCA all the way for me. The upgrade from any previous version of Active Sky is $34, I think. I got both the ASP4 upgrade and ASCA dirt-cheap in a sale right when P3D4 came out. Well worth it at any price as far as I'm concerned.

[Penzoil3]

I have been using FSrealWXPro.....freeware, for V4, for a few years and it's excellent!


Dick

So you were using this for P3D 4, before P3D 4 was released...
LOL

[Daube]

So you were using this for P3D 4, before P3D 4 was released...
LOL

That program exists since a few years indeed, it was not created for v4. What's wrong ?

[falcon409]

That program exists since a few years indeed, it was not created for v4. What's wrong ?
It's just Penzoil3 sarcasm Daube. She took Sidlers statement to mean he had been using FSRealWx Pro in P3D_V4 for several years. . .rather than what he actually meant which was he had been using FSRW Pro for several years and was now using it in V4.

[Daube]

Ah ok, I see. Sorry for that.

[sidler]

Thank you guy's...I have had it since FSX, Prepar V1, V2 , V3 and V4. It's an excellent app. for freeware!


Dick

[falcon409]

Thank you guy's...I have had it since FSX, Prepar V1, V2 , V3 and V4. It's an excellent app. for freeware!
Dick
I also use it, but I finally purchased the payware version and it does an excellent job.

[sidler]

Hi Ed

I may go ahead and get the payware version...............

[gavinc]

I have been using FSXWX for quite a while in FSX and it works just as well in P3D v4
http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm

Gavin

[roger-wilco-66]

FS Global Real Weather. But not for V4, they are in the process of revamping the system and bring out a new version. It was very pleasant to use, so I'm sweating it out and wait. Using the freware mentioned above in the meanwhile.


Cheers,
Mark

[Montie]

I have been using FSXWX for quite a while in FSX and it works just as well in P3D v4
http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm

Gavin

How did you get it to work? I used it with P3D v3, but in P3D V4 it only gives me clear skies.

[banjoman1960]

How did you get it to work? I used it with P3D v3, but in P3D V4 it only gives me clear skies.

you need fsuipc :ernaehrung004:

[spatialpro]

Phil, I can heartily recommend OpusFSI to you. It provides weather injection and a whole lot more besides. For UK flying it'll inject the weather for free, so you can try-before-you-buy! It works a treat in v4 and is always updated very rapidly in my experience. TBH I'm surprised it isn't more widely known...

Andy

[Daube]

OpusFSI was well-known, until it switched from freeware to payware. Then its popularity decreased.

If I have to buy a payware weather engine, then I'll compare the features of all the payware ones. And so far, I don't think there any weather system matching the features of Active Sky.
I think that very recently another weather engine has finally implemented the historical weather, which is the single most important feature for me, but I don't remember which weather engine it was. In any case, for payware Active Sky is the "all in one" package of choice, I don't see any reason to switch to another product right now.

[docjohnson]

I use FSXWx currently, I had REX essentials, but quit using it as the weather transitions were too disruptive. I had looked at Active Sky, but wanted to wait to see what Skyforce 3D is going to turn out like before I decide. The new REX TD & SC update that was just released supposedly has hooks for Skyforce and "Environment force" whatever that is.

[SkippyBing]

Thanks for the recommendations, for the time being I've gone with FSRealWx which has worked quite well for a few short hops around the Persian Gulf and the Malay Peninsula. Oh and is cheap which is important when you have a flat roof that needs replacing...