Weather and PE

[Mark Hargrove]

OK, simulated weather has me massively confused.

In addition to stock FSX w/ Acceleration Pack, I'm running WideView to drive additional displays. WideView has options to synchronize weather from the server (where you're actually flying FSX) to the WideView clients (which are also running FSX, but are really just viewports that are slaved to the WideView server). In addition to all this, the PE client itself has an option to synchronize the weather from PE to FSX.

Is anybody else running WideView and PE together? And if so, do you have a clue how to set things up so that the weather on everything is synchronized with PE? I'm getting sorta embarrassed listening to the PE controllers give me altimeter settings and telling me that the weather at my destination is 2000' OVC with light rain while I'm looking at 29.92 on the Kollsman and CAVU on my displays. I'd like to participate in the "real" weather most of the time but just cannot figure out how to set things up.

Any suggestions?

-M.

[Orest Skrypuch]

2000' OVC with light rain

In SoCal? Nah, must be a software problem.

* Orest

[Keith Smith]

The PE client doesn't actually set the weather at all. That's a hang over from the original client from which PE was derived. The latest version of the PE client (0.9.1, posted yesterday) disables that particular weather option.

It's up to you to configure the sim to download and utilize real weather if you'd like it to match what the controllers are saying.

[Kyle Rodgers]

You'll need to get the weather to FSX via either FSX's internal weather download, or through a program like ASE.

The "server" reference with WideView is just to say that it'll pull it from your local server (your FSX machine) to the WideView clients. You can't use WideView to pull weather from anywhere else. It sounds like you're getting lost because both programs use the word "server."

So, FSX or ASE (or similar) to get the weather, WideView to pass that weather over to the other WideView clients.