FS Global Weather - Anyone use it?

[Stringbean]

I was thinking about a weather engine to supply the latest METAR weather updates and a bit of reading up here and there suggest that FSGW is the one to use.

I will use it in conjuntion with xplane default weather for the actual cloud textures until Active Sky becomes available for the XP platform as I have no interest in either XE or SMP for the actual texture side of things.

Xplane does not really give the latest weather updates and I proved that to myself many times by looking at the airports i'm landing at in the Sim to those in Flight Radar 24 and Xplane is not always acurate and it's quite frustrating when you check all the aviation weather online e.t.c only to have xplane tell you something different.

So is FSGW the one to get or are there others on the market to look at?

Thanks.

[J.]

ive heard its the best purchased it a couple hours ago still waiting on activation code

[Stringbean]

Originally posted by Cosmic Space:

ive heard its the best purchased it a couple hours ago still waiting on activation code

Check your Spam folder just in case it went there.

[Stringbean]

Originally posted by Cosmic Space:

ive heard its the best purchased it a couple hours ago still waiting on activation code

How are you getting on with this? Didi you try it out yet?

[J.]

Originally posted by stringbean6:

Originally posted by Cosmic Space:

ive heard its the best purchased it a couple hours ago still waiting on activation code

How are you getting on with this? Didi you try it out yet?

yes i love it

[Stringbean]

Is the weather up-to-date like in the real world, unlike Xplane which does often appear less current.

For example, in Xplane I might be to told to land on a particular runway, say 27L at Gatwick but Flight Radar 24 shows them landing and departing on runway 08R, the other end.

[Stringbean]

Q8Pilot has just released his new video about FSGRW versus Xplane 11 default weather. It couldn't have come at a better time because I really want to get this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSA94K8TGos

[Mr.T]

Anyone know if Fs global weather works in VR?

[J.]

it does work in vr just used it

[Mr.T]

Thank you :)

Aerosoft.com is the cheepest place to buy it, it seems, or?

[J.]

i dont think think i replaces cloud texures. it just injects real world weather into sim

[J.]

Originally posted by stringbean6:

Is the weather up-to-date like in the real world, unlike Xplane which does often appear less current.

For example, in Xplane I might be to told to land on a particular runway, say 27L at Gatwick but Flight Radar 24 shows them landing and departing on runway 08R, the other end.

you use default atc or vatsim

[J.]

Originally posted by Mr.T:

Thank you :)

Aerosoft.com is the cheepest place to buy it, it seems, or?

yes seems to be the cheapest on there

[J.]

forgot to mention is pretty heavy on fps with the cloud layers

[Stringbean]

I purchased it this morning. Produces many more layers of clouds. No problems with FPS for me. So much better than default.

[PvWolf666]

Yep, thinking about buying this. Kinda lost faith in xEnviro.... FPS is so bad.