Taken from this Reddit thread most credit goes to chief_187 for accumulating the links.
- Noaa X Plane 110
- Noaa Weather X Plane 11
- Noaa X Plane 11
- Noaa X Plane 11 Update
- Noaa Weather X Plane 11 Download
Weather/Clouds:
The current beta version of ASXP can supposedly inject more than 3 layers of cloud into X-Plane 11 (I have not seen this yet). Yep it can use NOAA, but the most recent (I believe XP uses 2 hour old due to a 1 hour cache) plus VATSIM or IVAO. I was on the hunt this afternoon for a weather engine/plugin for X-Plane 11 and someone pointed me in the direction of NOAA Weather. Honestly, the application seems to be exactly what I'm looking for: 1) something lightweight that won't take a big hit on my system's performance, and 2) freeware. So first: a major shout our to Joan.
- I have Xenviro which obtains weather and updates the Metar file but only once I start a flight. I really would like to see weather start as soon as I start X plane. P2A is using NOAA weather so even without X plane it has the most current weather information and active runway information. Have a great flight!
- Time to bring another level of realism to X Plane 11, this time with real time and real world weather! I take a look at the XPGFS NOAA Weather Plugin, showin.
- Ugh, the whole reason I started using FSGRW was to cancel out that bs variable wind crap that X-Plane does. At the end of the day it’s on LR to refine variable winds so that they aren’t just the direction and speed bouncing between the same two variables the whole time, because that is maddening.
Clouds HD Extending the look of the standard clouds. Making the skies more happy.
NOAA Plugin Injecting 8 layered wind data into x-planes weather engine. Simply one of the best plugins for x-plane out there.
Scenery Objects:
World 2 X-Plane World2XPlane will add forests, regional houses and landmarks using a list of highly configurable rules, based on open street map data.
High Performance Textures for W2XP: America
High Performance Textures for W2XP: Europe
OSM Pro Series Like w2Xplane but even more precise OSM data.
Treelines and Farms Adding tree lines and farms in your scenery. Making the look and feel of the scenery more “organic”. Garmin alpha 200i.
Enhanced Runways HD Better looking runways… yay! Gta 5 prime gaming.
Scenery orthophotos:
Ortho4XP This uses Google maps / Bing / USGS and many more for generating high quality photo tiles. Highly recommended!
Scenery Zones LowRes photo tiles for Europe.
IT Zones Good photo tiles for just Italy.
UHD Spain HD Photo tiles for Spain and its islands. This is how your photo tiles should look like. Really well done.
Hawaii Photo Scenery Beautiful textures & mesh for Hawaii
Scenery Meshes:
UHD Mesh 30m DEM resolution data.
HD Mesh 90m DEM resolution data.
Visual Enhancement:
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Flight with LUA Lua 5.1 script engine for X-Plane. You need it for RTH.
RealTerraHaze Adding atmospheric scattering, Raleigh and a lot more. Really a must have!
European City Lights Adds more street lights in cities, they will look brighter. Deletes streetlights at highways.
BluFX Lets you change saturation, contrast, etc. Includes a frame limiter, too.
Airports:
Aircraft:
Noaa X Plane 110
B 737-800 Great jetliner + 3D cockpit
LT-401 Small turboprop + 3D cockpit
Fokker F27-600 Turboprop airliner + 3D cockpit.
Douglas DC-9 Great jetliner + 3D cockpit
Eclipse 550 Light business jet + 3D cockpit
Mil Mi-2 Former payware helicopter now free! + 3D cockpit
Verticopter VTOL aircraft, fun to fly. + 3D cockpit
Sikorsky S-76 Nice helicopter, flies well but not very deep systems wise + 3D cockpit
Kalinin K-7 Russian monstrosity that allegedly can fly + 3D cockpit
Aero Boero AB-115 Former payware bush plane +3D cockpit
Shavrov Sh-2 Small amphibious aircraft +3D cockpit
Mitsubishi A6M Zero Beautifully crafted WWII airplane + 3D cockpit
Jetpack: JETPACK.
Yak 55: Aerobatic plane which used to be payware, now free!
Tools:
Plan-G: Donationware for flight planning, is able to connect to XP via XPUIPC and lets you program the AP, change radio settings, etc. POWERFUL TOOL
EFASS: It is a swissknife for X-Plane. It can do a lot but nothing really good. I would suggest, you should take a look at the demo as it is freemium.
X-Camera: X-Camera is an enhanced camera system for X-Plane that lets you define multiple view categories and multiple views within those categories that are associated with specific aircraft.
XHSI: XHSI (eXternal High-resolution Simulator Instruments) is an add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator. It displays the PFD, ND, EICAS, Flaps and Gear indicator, Clock/Chronometer, etc… in separate windows. In general, the instruments can be displayed in B737-NG or A320 style.
Landing Speed: Landing Speed plugin grades quality of landing. It shows vertical speed at the moment of touch down in feet per minute and meters per second as well as textual grade of landing quality.
EZ Pushback: EZPushback is a lightweight pushback utility designed for X-Plane 10.20 or later. It simply moves the aircraft backward or forward. It can be controlled by menu, keyboard, joystick, or from other plug-in.
Ground Services: Provides ground services with object animations using OpenSceneryX objects. A nice plugin to have some movement around your plane, and do your push-back and refueling
xOrganizer: A great tool for X-Plane! Manipulates scripts, lets you review all the addon scenery on a map, mesh coverage etc. Pretty exceptional.
X-FMC: Universal FMC. This plugin helps you following IFR flightplans on X-Plane and interacts with X-Plane default autopilot.
SkyVector: Excellent flight planing site.
X-Assign: Lets you set up your controls PER AIRCRAFT. Comes very handy when you switch from planes to helicopters regularly.
Airport Navigator: This plugin provides an overview map of the airport you’re at.
LiveATC Lets you listen to real ATC radio traffic, excellent background noise.
Apps:
FltPlan Go for Android & iOS: Description from the App store: „The free FltPlan Go app is an indispensable companion to the FltPlan website and incorporates essential features and tools for in-flight and offline use.“North-America only.
SkyMaxx Pro v4 – A revolutionary weather rendering engine for both X-Plane 10 and X-Plane 11!
X-Plane’s most popular and best-selling add-on is back as version 4.0, and with some stellar new features!
Maxx-XP, in co-operation with Sundog Software, and X-Aviation are excited to bring you another game changing experience to the weather rendering in X-Plane 10 and X-Plane 11! SkyMaxx Pro v4 is an X-Plane cloud and sky replacement engine boasting all-new technology for X-Plane that it’s almost like having an all-new sim!
Quick Facts: Typically runs faster than X-Plane’s default clouds but looks better, double the draw distance compared to SkyMaxx Pro v3 with vast performance increases, introduces 3D precipitation, stratiform clouds, crepuscular rays, clouds aloft with wind speed, truly 3D clouds.
Developer: Maxx-XP
Download Size: 120MB
Noaa Weather X Plane 11
How SkyMaxx Pro works
SkyMaxx Pro is a plug-in that disables X-Plane’s cloud and weather rendering engine, then replaces it with the SkyMaxx Pro version of weather. It takes weather data from the already existing X-Plane weather menu that you are used to, so there’s nothing new to learn. What you gain are some amazing visual effects at almost no performance hit! In fact, most of our test team showed that when running default X-Plane clouds vs. SkyMaxx Pro clouds, SkyMaxx Pro had better frame rates over the default X-Plane clouds!
New features in Version 4:
Designed to work with both X-Plane 10 and 11!
– Code is implemented in SkyMaxx Pro v4 to know whether you are running X-Plane 10 or 11. Depending on which version, SkyMaxx Pro auto adjusts for the version of X-Plane you are running!
– Code is implemented in SkyMaxx Pro v4 to know whether you are running X-Plane 10 or 11. Depending on which version, SkyMaxx Pro auto adjusts for the version of X-Plane you are running!
Double your maximum cloud draw area compared to SkyMaxx Pro v3!
– Big performance improvements allow clouds to be drawn across an area up to 320 km across surrounding your plane. Go ahead and crank up SMP’s cloud draw area setting and achieve fast, realistic scenes at FL300 and above.
– Big performance improvements allow clouds to be drawn across an area up to 320 km across surrounding your plane. Go ahead and crank up SMP’s cloud draw area setting and achieve fast, realistic scenes at FL300 and above.
New 3D precipitation system!
– The new precipitation system represents rain, sleet, wet snow, and dry snow – as well as mixed precipitation that responds automatically to the ambient temperature. Precipitation is even lit by your landing lights! And a whole new precipitation control panel lets you tweak its appearance to your own liking.
– The new precipitation system represents rain, sleet, wet snow, and dry snow – as well as mixed precipitation that responds automatically to the ambient temperature. Precipitation is even lit by your landing lights! And a whole new precipitation control panel lets you tweak its appearance to your own liking.
Precipitation is tied to individual clouds
– Rain will start and stop realistically as you fly underneath or through the clouds
– Rain will start and stop realistically as you fly underneath or through the clouds
All-new “HD Cloud Puffs” overcast representation!
– Fly through large, thick overcast layers built from real HD cloud photos, without killing your framerate. Overcast clouds have never looked so good from above and below.
– Fly through large, thick overcast layers built from real HD cloud photos, without killing your framerate. Overcast clouds have never looked so good from above and below.
Integration with SoundMaxx
– Lightning effects in SkyMaxx Pro 4 will trigger 3D positional thunder sound effects when SoundMaxx is installed
– Lightning effects in SkyMaxx Pro 4 will trigger 3D positional thunder sound effects when SoundMaxx is installed
Lots of extra polish
– Higher-resolution scattered and broken cumulus clouds, with twice the resolution as SMP3
– Cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds now move realistically relative to your plane’s motion.
– Works better than ever with Real Weather Connector: more accurate representations of ground fog, thunderstorm placement, and stratus/overcast cloud placement when used with RWC.
– Adjusts lighting on distant cloud puffs at night
– Higher-resolution scattered and broken cumulus clouds, with twice the resolution as SMP3
– Cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds now move realistically relative to your plane’s motion.
– Works better than ever with Real Weather Connector: more accurate representations of ground fog, thunderstorm placement, and stratus/overcast cloud placement when used with RWC.
– Adjusts lighting on distant cloud puffs at night
Highlighted Features
Noaa X Plane 11
• Lens Flare
• Cloud shadows
• Clouds aloft with wind speed
• Crepuscular rays
• Full 3D Clouds
• Stratus and overcast cloud layers may now be represented by thick, volumetric clouds.
• Extends all the way to the horizon
• Both solid and broken stratiform representations
• Advanced lighting model with real Mie scattering and fogbows!
• Realistic in-cloud effects for convincing IFR landings and takeoffs
• Simulated scud layer
• Real simulation of single, double, and multiple scattering of sunlight and moonlight through the clouds
• 3D volumetric cloud layers adjustable up to 320KM wide
• Uses “dynamically generated imposters” technology to keep frame-rates up
• Convincing high-altitude weather for jetliner pilots
• Soft cloud / terrain blending
• Adjustable soft blending of any cloud type with terrain
• Makes for gorgeous ground fog, or clouds surrounding mountaintops!
• Lightning effects in SkyMaxx Pro 4 will trigger 3D positional thunder sound effects when SoundMaxx is installed
• Integrates seamlessly with the X-Plane weather menus Dropbox sync local folder.
• Cloud shadows
• Clouds aloft with wind speed
• Crepuscular rays
• Full 3D Clouds
• Stratus and overcast cloud layers may now be represented by thick, volumetric clouds.
• Extends all the way to the horizon
• Both solid and broken stratiform representations
• Advanced lighting model with real Mie scattering and fogbows!
• Realistic in-cloud effects for convincing IFR landings and takeoffs
• Simulated scud layer
• Real simulation of single, double, and multiple scattering of sunlight and moonlight through the clouds
• 3D volumetric cloud layers adjustable up to 320KM wide
• Uses “dynamically generated imposters” technology to keep frame-rates up
• Convincing high-altitude weather for jetliner pilots
• Soft cloud / terrain blending
• Adjustable soft blending of any cloud type with terrain
• Makes for gorgeous ground fog, or clouds surrounding mountaintops!
• Lightning effects in SkyMaxx Pro 4 will trigger 3D positional thunder sound effects when SoundMaxx is installed
• Integrates seamlessly with the X-Plane weather menus Dropbox sync local folder.
Compatible With
• X-Plane 10 & 11
• Mac & Windows. No Linux.
• VATSIM – xsquawkbox
• NOAA Weather Plugin
• X-Plane Real Weather Download
• FSGRW
• …And many more!
• Mac & Windows. No Linux.
• VATSIM – xsquawkbox
• NOAA Weather Plugin
• X-Plane Real Weather Download
• FSGRW
• …And many more!
Why should you get it?
SkyMaxx Pro will literally change the way you see the world in X-Plane, and has four years of development experience in the X-Plane world. It brings the entire simulator to a whole new level of realism. Do you want better X-Plane clouds that really look like clouds and give you a better feeling of really being there? Do you want to see the rays of the sun hit the clouds, and watch pockets of sunshine shine through like they do in real life? Do you want to see clouds that move like they should? Do you want full control of your sky colors? If these questions all interest you, then SkyMaxx Pro is for you! It is an amazing add-on for X-Plane with no learning experience, a very quick install, and a beautiful change to your X-Plane world. Get it today!
Noaa X Plane 11 Update
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Noaa Weather X Plane 11 Download
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