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Of course, RWC is a separate product from SkyMaxx Pro, so you are going to pay a bit for the added functionality. Once you’ve tried it out for a bit and see the difference between the default weather generation and the RWC enhanced weather generation, you realize how much you wish this had always been a part of X-Plane. 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.
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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. A nifty new utility has been released by X-Aviation that vastly improves the weather depiction capabilities of X-Plane 10….