![]() Ĭolumbia 409, after a squall as the sunshine evaporates the puddles that formed during the rain. The far-away depiction of weather is my favorite new effect for realism and a sense of upcoming trouble. Gazing southwards, you can see the weather systems with cirrus clouds now included. Look at that gorgeous shine on metallic surfaces and sunlight reflection with the new XP12 lighting effects. The fictional Columbia Airlines Flight 409 heavy makes her way westward. This visual candy is so true to real life, as I often see at FL400 in the bizjet I fly for work. and approaching the monsoon convection over New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, I can parallel and see the entire event 100 miles away. Runway reverser action in the sim includes moisture fogging on the engine inlet. The default heavy A330 circumnavigates around a big cumulonimbus cloud at altitude. The rain impact, and especially the sound of the heavy rain, is better than the MSFS2020 version, which is quiet and weak. The runway water model features performance degradation, as well as visuals. The sim showed heavy rain being wiped away. Using the same Airbus Corporate Jet ACJ319 in the Caribbean with convective weather produced visuals such as soaked runways, engine blowback, mist, tire spray, and reflectivity. It is probably the best depiction of weather I have ever seen in a sim. This effect is incredible and very accurate. Some lower-level haze and fogging is also seen. This is a realistic meteorological phenomenon that pilots see up high. Here, we see the overhanging anvil clouds coming out of the top of the lower convection zone. I used a ForeFlight app on an iPad to accompany my XP flights. Hanscom Field Airport (KBED) in Bedford, Massachusetts-I broke out of the advancing weather to see the overhang of thunderstorms advancing my way. As I proceeded eastward to my alternate airport-Laurence G. I could not get to my destination of KORH because it was below minimums, and I made a missed approach. The accuracy and feeling of blasting through these tops is fabulous and is accompanied by clouds, bursts of loud rain, or ice, depending on the temperature. Trying to beat an advancing line of heavy convection, you can see the lower buildups over 10,000 feet here, but much higher in the distance, corresponding with the bigger storms and tops. The clouds were bubbling up in the right places. Flying various aircraft in XP12 at that exact moment has given me an appreciation of how accurate the live weather is, along with its stunning graphic depiction.įlying the Toliss A319 from New York to southern New England provided some excitement as I headed toward a squall line approaching my home, Worcester Regional Airport (KORH) in Massachusetts. I recently started experimenting with live weather as it was occurring near my home. The in-game weather has not affected this, which is a real shock. On my modest laptop with most detail sliders three-fourths of the way up and running in 2K native resolution, I often see frame rates over 50 frames per second. Even the most complex jetliners now performed as well in XP12 as in XP11, all the while looking superior in the new lighting and weather. The performance issues I had in earlier updates in XP12 seemed to have gone away as well. ![]() Previously purchased XP11 aircraft all started getting updates to make them fully XP12 compliant. The sky coloring, lighting, cloudscapes, and weather modeling all came together. Then, suddenly, a new update to XP12 beta was released. Up until just two weeks ago, I resigned to sticking with XP11. Graphical glitches, texture shimmers, performance issues, incompatibility of add-on aircraft previously purchased, etc., made for a frustrating time. My love of XP11 didn’t transfer easily to XP12.
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