Pete's own weather injector?

[jcomm]

There used to be a nice, cute, application, developed by Pete Dowson, to inject weather in MSFS.

Is it still available, and, will it work with fsx+acceleration+fsuipc4.20?

[Pete Dowson]

There used to be a nice, cute, application, developed by Pete Dowson, to inject weather in MSFS.

Really? I don't remember that!

Maybe you are confusing the job of "WeatherSet" which is a test program for the FSUIPC Advanced Weather Inteface (AWI) for FS2000 -- that one deals only with global weather setting.

Then there's WeatherSet2, for the New Weather Interface (NWI) which can deal with local weather stations on FS2002 and FS2004.

Is it still available, and, will it work with fsx+acceleration+fsuipc4.20?

They both sort of work with FSX, with qualification -- FSX tends to take over and do its own thing no matter what you do through these little programs. The main weather interface into FSX now is via SimConnect.

WeatherSet and WeatherSet2 are both available in the FSX Downloads Announcement, above.

Regards

Pete

[jcomm]

Yes,

of course, I meant WeatherSet, and I forgot it was not a weather injector...

Anyway, I am now using FSX+Acceleration and found out that probably the best solution to have your online weather close to the real thing still is to use plain FSX weather, possibly (and that's what I am using now with good results in as far as wind shifts go...) FSUIPC weather options as well (with the "Allow changes to FS own weather" enabled).

Today it was a rainy and windy day at LPPT. I did a few flights from LEMD (Madrid) to Lisbon using two well known weather injection programs, with FSUIPC weather options OFF, and then with native FSX weather (having first uninstalled each of the programs) and FSUIPC weather settings on. It might have been casual but the two experiments with this settings revealed, by far, the closest to real weather depiction, winds and turbulence.

[Pete Dowson]

I am now using FSX+Acceleration and found out that probably the best solution to have your online weather close to the real thing still is to use plain FSX weather, possibly (and that's what I am using now with good results in as far as wind shifts go...) FSUIPC weather options as well (with the "Allow changes to FS own weather" enabled).

Yes, the FSX downloaded weather is usually pretty good.

I use ASX which I think pays a lot more attention to correct temperature gradients and upper winds, and combined with its graphics counterpart it produces some gorgeous skies.

... the two experiments with this settings revealed, by far, the closest to real weather depiction, winds and turbulence.

Good, I'm glad it's coming together!

Pete