by Gary R. » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:54 pm
I think I will go with registering my fsuipc and buy some rxp avionics. There is a WX available at sim-market that is just as capable as rxp's but only $14.99 USD and no frame hits required like rxp's would (I always fly with 3D cloudes minimized to keep FPS higher). Don't really need FS navigator because I download and print out charts from several sources. Besides, it's not INS, FMC, or anything resembling an actual aircraft system (too simmy). I think I will get the hetline gauges along with the Garmin's from RXP as I always enhance most freeware panels above and beyond what the original authors do. I have yet to find a freeware panel that I can't find some way to make more realistic even if it's just in terms of gauge placement. I would rather be inconvenienced with extra pop-up panels and have proper left seat perspective and gauge placement than artistic liscense which is so often used to make a panel more "sim" friendly. Oh yeah, do tell please. Does Active Sky cost FPS in order to get the best realism out of it? If not, I might give it a try. I am most concerned with a pictoral representation of conditions that would emulate an uplinked NEXRAD picture or that of a Stormescope, preferable one that doesn't demand a high percentage of 3D cloud draw. I am only concerned with 3D cloudes that my plane is flying through, not 3D cloudes that are miles away. I want my weather to simulate shear, microburst, proper winds aloft, and of course the varying vis conditons with minimal FPS cost.
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