I think RWC is one of those really cool utilities that adds a lot of functionality and realism to X-Plane. The aircraft is placed at BGD airfield and note the depiction of the thunderstorms north of the field, and the depiction of BGD as being in clear air. Here is a comparison between what X-Plane with RWC depicts and the current real world radar picture. It is hard to explain how nice this is compared to the old “pop in/out” type of weather generation, but after flying with it for a few days, I’m sold on the concept. Therefore, with RWC, you can see the type of weather in front of you that you will be flying into, and the weather will change more gradually as you transition to that new weather pattern. RWC was developed to allow a greater sampling of the weather around you, and apply graphics that more accurately match the conditions that would be there and more gradually transition you into those conditions. X-Plane would tend to abruptly shift you from a perfectly clear sky, to overcast and thunderstorms without any transition at all. As anyone can tell you, the weather a few miles in front of you can be vastly different than the airmass you are flying through at the moment. Prior to RWC, when using either the default X-Plane weather or SkyMaxx Pro, there tended to be a popping in and popping out effect as you overflew the map as the weather generating program read the closest station’s weather. The unique feature of RWC, however, is that it allows for the drawing of weather in X-Plane using multiple stations with clouds depicted realistically for those individual stations. In not so many words, RWC takes the real world weather data that X-Plane downloads, reads it, and then applies it to the X-Plane environment via the excellent environmental graphics provided by SkyMaxx Pro. Created by Sundog Software, it also arguably presents a better weather depiction than other X-Plane add-on weather generators since RWC adds a component that other weather engines don’t have. Real Weather Connector (RWC) works in conjunction with another X-Aviation product, SkyMaxx Pro, to provide a more realistic weather depiction than what you’d find with default X-Plane. So for now I’d say “better” but definitely not the holy grail as yet.A nifty new utility has been released by X-Aviation that vastly improves the weather depiction capabilities of X-Plane 10…. But it’s something I’ll be looking into for future revisions." I’ve actually talked to Laminar about finding a better way to deal with this case, and it’s hard to say the least. Like I said, these boundaries are pretty far apart, so this isn’t something that happens often - you just got unlucky in your location.
What probably happened is that you flew across a corner of one of X-Plane’s grid cells that define a given coordinate system, which led to this happening a couple of times as you flew into the corner of another frame of reference and then back out of it. "That means we crossed a boundary where X-Plane changed its coordinate system, and we had to regenerate the clouds in order to properly position them again. In explaining some continuing pop-in/outs even with RWC installed he posted the following:
It is worth mentioning this quote from the developer (Sundog Software) that not ALL pop-ins and outs will be solved by RWC.
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It would be interesting if RWC could be used to ease that problem using the default XP weather as well…then you wouldn’t have to necessarily use SkyMaxx Pro as well. I’ll see if I can put one together tonight…Īll of that said, I think default XP does a good job with weather depiction and really it is mostly the jarring transitions that can be somewhat frustrating. It is also a phenomenon that can’t be accurately demonstrated in screens - a video of the difference in “snap in/out” would probably be more illustrative. My intent (whether it came through or not) was to highlight how RWC largely prevents flying along and then suddenly being presented with a wildly different weather depiction, as has happened to me many times in XP. One can look at my early EPOCH Air Alaska AARs and see good examples of some good XP weather depictions. Hmm… In re-reading the article I feel I was accommodating enough by using words like “tend to” and “arguably” since there are instances when default XP shows quite good weather depiction.
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