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DVA7922
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP
Joined on November 04 2009
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Student Pilot: "Um, Your controls."" Dallas, GA USA
384 legs, 1,292.5 hours
128 legs,
221.9 hours online 382 legs,
1,281.7 hours ACARS 18 legs,
40.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 10 2009 09:17 ET by Charles Carter
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I'm not using any addon scenery or weather packages as of right now. I keep having issues with the default weather in FSX. The most annoying is sudden winds aloft changes. There is no smooth of the changes and on several flights it has caused crash detection due to aircraft overstress. The other problem is that weather seems to be a big hit for my FPS, and I don't even have it turned up very high. I'm using a computer with an AMD Turion X2 processor and 4GB RAM with an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card. It does most things well, I know FSX can a bit hit on resources, but there's got to be something that can help with this.
Is there an addon or any way to smooth these wind shifts?
Is there a program that can generate rw weather without grinding my simulation to a hault?
Charles CarterSenior Captain, MD-88
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DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM
Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"De oppresso liber" Surry, ME
1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs,
767.8 hours online 1,107 legs,
1,674.5 hours ACARS 55 legs,
114.8 hours event 195 legs dispatched, 134.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 10 2009 09:37 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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Wx in FSX/9 is ok at best using data from teh Jeppeson servers.
Recommend Active Sky X coupled with Real Environment Extreme X
http://www2.hifisim.com/node/4 (Active Sky)
http://realenvironmentxtreme.com/features.html
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DVA7922
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP
Joined on November 04 2009
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Student Pilot: "Um, Your controls."" Dallas, GA USA
384 legs, 1,292.5 hours
128 legs,
221.9 hours online 382 legs,
1,281.7 hours ACARS 18 legs,
40.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 10 2009 18:05 ET by Charles Carter
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So how do you incorporate Real Environment Extreme X into starting up a flight? I currently start FSX and get the plane setup at the gate. Then I start FS Commander and build my flight plan for the flight. Then start ACARS and load the plan in and start the ACARS flight session. After that I launch Radar Contact. After all that I setup my instruments and go fly. Where would I fit REX into all that? It seems like it needs to be done before I start FSX. Will I have to wait for it to load the theme into FSX before each and every session? It seems to take a while.
Charles CarterSenior Captain, MD-88
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DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM
Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"De oppresso liber" Surry, ME
1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs,
767.8 hours online 1,107 legs,
1,674.5 hours ACARS 55 legs,
114.8 hours event 195 legs dispatched, 134.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 10 2009 18:45 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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Charles here's how I Start:
REX - I let it load with the Fly Now option
FSX Starts automatically from REX
FSCommander once I am at the gate (Build flight plan and save it)
Start ACARS - load flight plan
Start Radar Contact (load flight plan into RC4)
The only time it takes a while is if/when you adjust variables (themes) it has to rebuild the entire set...other than that - once you find the set you want - it should be relatively quick.
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DVA7922
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP
Joined on November 04 2009
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Student Pilot: "Um, Your controls."" Dallas, GA USA
384 legs, 1,292.5 hours
128 legs,
221.9 hours online 382 legs,
1,281.7 hours ACARS 18 legs,
40.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 10 2009 18:53 ET by Charles Carter
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So it will continue to read RW weather even if you're not flying anywhere close to whatever area the flightplan in REX think you'll be flying? I can skip all that stuff? Should FSX be set to download weather, or user defined?
Sorry, I know these seem like newb questions. It just seems like the PDF file for the program leaves out a lot of the more practical stuff. And the program takes a while for some stuff, so I'm trying not to waste time on the wrong stuff.
Charles CarterSenior Captain, MD-88
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DVA6695
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 26 2008
Century Club
Online Century Club
"We are....Penn State" Phoenixville, PA USA
153 legs, 206.0 hours
108 legs,
149.6 hours online 149 legs,
200.2 hours ACARS 11 legs,
20.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 10 2009 20:10 ET by Jack Urie
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If you want REX to load a lot faster, you can go to the options and uncheck all the water textures (unless you really want them) and REX will load really fast. I have seen the same thing as Andrew--it seems to load a lot quicker after the first time. I use the load time to plan my route or get my checklists in order (and post to the Water Cooler).
Oh yeah--I leave FSX Weather on "Clear". REX takes over.
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DVA7922
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP
Joined on November 04 2009
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Student Pilot: "Um, Your controls."" Dallas, GA USA
384 legs, 1,292.5 hours
128 legs,
221.9 hours online 382 legs,
1,281.7 hours ACARS 18 legs,
40.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 11 2009 19:49 ET by Charles Carter
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So what do you use Active Sky X for then?
Charles CarterSenior Captain, MD-88
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DVA7922
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP
Joined on November 04 2009
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Student Pilot: "Um, Your controls."" Dallas, GA USA
384 legs, 1,292.5 hours
128 legs,
221.9 hours online 382 legs,
1,281.7 hours ACARS 18 legs,
40.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 12 2009 12:08 ET by Charles Carter
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And does anyone have problems with REX "updating FSX. FSX will freeze for a moment."? It did that on a flight from cvg to lax. When it unfrooze, my CS767 went into a steep spiral.
Charles CarterSenior Captain, MD-88
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