Configuring FSUIPC for REX Weather Essentials

[poolep]

I've been using FSUIPC with FSX and real world weather for some time with no problems,

 

The m ain reason why I purchased FSUIPC was to stop the huge changes in weather - 100 degrees and 10 knots one moment and 200 degrees and 15 knots the next.

 

This was OK until I prucased REX weather essentials.  Now this "injects" the weather.  I no longer use FSX weather.

 

However I am back to where I started with huge changes in Weather.

 

I can't see what I should be changing - either in REX or FSUIPC to correct this.

 

 

 

[Pete Dowson]

The m ain reason why I purchased FSUIPC was to stop the huge changes in weather - 100 degrees and 10 knots one moment and 200 degrees and 15 knots the next.

This was OK until I prucased REX weather essentials.  Now this "injects" the weather.  I no longer use FSX weather.

However I am back to where I started with huge changes in Weather.

I can't see what I should be changing - either in REX or FSUIPC to correct this.

 

FSUIPC4 applies wind smoothing to any weather, from anywhere, when enabled. I think this can be defeated as it is timing dependent, but not with normal weather programs which update weather at relatively infrequent intervals.

 

I'm afraid I don't know REX Weather. The programs I use are either ActiveSky 2012 or OpusFSX. Both are excellent weather providers.

 

First make sure you have wind smoothing enabled in FSUIPC. You shouldn't need to turn anything else on. If you are experiencing unwanted turbulence or variance you could opt to suppress those too, but that shouldn't be necessary.

Second, check what options there are in REX Weather -- you don't want the weather yupdating too often. Every 15 or 30 minutes is certainly adequate. weather reports from the Internet won't be that frequent in any case.

If there are still problems I can only advise you to seek help or opinions in the REX support forums. Yours surely can't be the only such experience?

 

[LATER]

 

I checked on the REX support site. This thread seems to say that FSUIPC does fix your issue:

http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/forums/index.php?/topic/25279-wind-stable-but-no-turbulence-its-too-stable/

He has the opposite problem now, probably because he told FSUIPC to suppress turbulence too.

 

There's also this thread:

http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/forums/index.php?/topic/26225-massive-wind-shifts/

which implies there is a wind smoothing option in REX too, and an SP2 update which helps.

 

Regards

Pete