CumulusX!

Hello Peter! I was just at your site today hoping for good news on maybe a new version of CumulusX!. Then I found the following statement... "As of January 1st, 2015, new legislation in the European Union is in effect imposing new requirements on VAT treatment, which are difficult to fulfill for small businesses. It is not fully clear what the consequences are for sales of personal licenses of CumulusX!. I hope to clarify the situation and come with a solution within the next few weeks. Until then sales of personal licenses are suspended." When you do come to a solution, can you give us a heads-up here to let us know what the situation is. I was going to hav…

Hello, I have purchased the full version but I have not gotten an email with my license information and I have also sent 2 emails.

I just moved from Opus to ASN for my main weather engine, and ended up spending hours trying to figure out why my FSX was crashing only on exit. Have been a licensed CumulusX user for quite some time, and was a bit disappointed to find the conflict was between ASN and CumulusX, (at least with my setup) - was hoping it was with ASN and some other addon that I don't really use or value as much! Anyway - the conflict only causes issues when exiting FSX. There is no impact to the running of either ASN or CumulusX within the sim itself. If both modules are trusted and loaded in the fsx.cfg and dll.xml - then an application error will be received on exit with the faulti…

Happy new year to you Peter! Still enjoying CumulusX. I have tried the new Active Sky Next (ASN) with CumulusX. The combination seems to be working well if I disable updraft/downdrafts in ASN. The ASN weather generation is a big improvement on AS2012. They seem to be incrementally controlling the wind shifts which is not upsetting the glider. I was suspicious that the enhanced turbulence effects with ASN would interfere with CumulusX own turbulence effects but so far it appears not to be the case (I don't know why because I thought that bumping the aircraft could only be done by one program in Simconnect). Will try and turn off ASN next flight and find out whe…

Dears, I am new here, I used to fly using condor and Silent wings, now I am trying FSX & cumulusX, can anyone tell me how to run it in demo mode? I woud like to see the demo before I buy the license. Regards

Hey, Today I tought lets give Cumulus x another chance , but unfurtunatly im sorted out with another problem. There are no clouds or lift what so ever. Debug: ----- Slope Lift ------ Eff. Slope Angle= 0 Eff. Slope Dir. = 328 Amb. Wind Dir. = 000 Amb. Wind Speed = 0,00 Lift Decay Const= 1000 Acft Altit. AGL = 1,91 Lift: = 0,00 Wind = 0,00 Thermal = 0,00 --- Thermal Conditions --- Thermal Energy = -0,53 Sun Azimuth = 183° Sun Altitude = 14° Max. Sun Altit. = 15° Solar time = 12:12 Sunrise = 08:15 Alitude Error = 0 CumulusXDll = False

I paid for a Cumulus X registration earlier today. Obviously this isn't pay and use right away product. So my question is how soon did you guys get the email with your 'keys' to register Cumulus X. Little anxious here. Thanks, Chris Strobel

Hi, When I try to soar with Cumulus X I can see those cumulus x clouds but when I fly under those clouds I can't find any thermals. Or let's say I can't find any thermals right now The Debug Window says: CumulusXDll = False Looks like the dll file isn't working. The dll.xml already got the following lines: <Launch.Addon> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Name>CumulusXDLL!</Name> <Path>Modules\CumulusX!\CumulusXDLL.dll</Path> <DllStartName>DLLStart</DllStartName> <DllStopName>DLLStop</DllStopName> </Launch.Addon> Thanks for any help

Hi Peter, I cant get the pzl to take off at all the chipmunk tows @ 45kt adjusted the setting makes no difference.. any ideas???

Hey guys, Today I gave cumulus X a try, but i came out with this problem very soon. Here is a picture that describes my problem http://oi42.tinypic.com/ip7hnp.jpg . Its not only in the beginning, it always seems to happen, in flight al clouds disappears around me Hopefully any of you have a solution for this, Thanks! Erwin

Hi there Please, what I am going to describe here is not a shameless request for wave lift in CumulusX. I have done coding for the internet community in other projects and I know how much work is involved in writing code!! But here is a fantastic example of a real world wave lift glider flight in my part of the world, Queensland Australia. The flight was conducted from Boonah airport at the Boonah Glider club. The pilot wrote a bit of a blog on the flight and the details are recorded in intimate detail. If nothing else, enjoy the read! Here is the blog (look under members "wave season May 19 2013"): http://www.boonahgliding.com.au/members/ Here is the ex…

See the attached Screen shoot. You can see that I have set the wind direction to 158, about perpendicular to the ridge at 8knots. However see the CumulusX Debug window. It shows the wind at 252 about parrallel to the ridge. That's no good! Might as well go look for a thermal. Anybody know why? On another note. Peter 1.9 is superb. Very realistic, from an FAI Silver Badge pilot.

Well, afer a year rumbling across simulators, I ended up with the perfect choice - for me... DCS World for flying to the limits and beyond of the flight envelope, and P3D for leisure GA, gliding, or even airline-type flying around the World. I know some are successfully using CumulusX! with P3D. I welcome any comments / reports / suggestions.

I am very happy to announce the new version 1.8 which is available for download as of now! The new features are: * More realistic ridge lift with slip-stream effect if higher terrain upwind * Thermal leaning adapted to differences between wind at ground and at altitude * Better placement of thermals in mountains * Lee-side thermals allow climb in lee-side conditions, with reduced lift. * Realistic vertical propagation of lift during thermal lifecycle Bonus functions for licensed users only: * Smart tow-plane, avoids flight into mountains and finds a nearby thermal (if visible) * Return of tow plane to the airport (not in mountains yet) * Higher realism by…

Hi, I'm a Cumulus X registered user. I didn't achieve to put a tow aircraft after have choose one of them in Cumulus x / Tools / Select tow plane. Could you help fix that. Thanks, From Brasil, Marco Aurelio

I am trying to soar at Moriarty, NM (0E0). The field elevation is 6200 ft. When I try to start the clouds are all on the deck and no thermals since they are too low. Is the thermal height setting in CumulusX MSL or AGL? Thanks for your help.

Hi Peter I have had wing-leveling on aerotow working but now it is not. I have had trouble about a week ago where my gliders started boucing up and down straight after loading on the airfield. I think I have since fixed that. Since then I have uninstalled and re-installed CumulusX! and Winch X. Now the wing levelling will not work when aero towing. I have tried different gliders just in case it was a case of one particular glider not working. The cloud shadows work so this part of ver1.9 is OK.

Hey, Well, how my graphics card doesn't support SP2 or Acceleration pack, i want to know: Is there an old version of CumulusX that works on SP1?Where can i find it? Thank you,

Hey, I've donwloaded recently the CumulusX 1.9 free verion to improve my flights with gliders in FSX, but i just can't connect. The CumulusX window opens automatically with the FSX, i put on free flight, choose fair wheater, choose the place and glider, but when i click the "CONNECT" button, nothing happens. The manual says that the "rigde lift" and "Auto Thermals" boxes should turn green...but nothing happens...what's going on? How can i solve this? I haveFSX SP1 (i think the version is not the problem) Thank You

Hello, I have a question regarding the installation of CumulusX V1.9. As I have a registered version of CumulusX V1.8.1 already installed do I need to uninstall this first or can I just run the V1.9 installer without uninstalling V1.8.1? Are my registration files valid for the new version? Thank you. Glenn.

Hi Peter, anyone, I have just installed Cumulus x v1.9 after registering for the payware version. However, when I go into the Cumulus x control panel, it says I cannot configure thermalling birds or soft cloud shadows as it is only possible with the registered version. I assume it is an easy task, but nowhere have I been asked anything about entering a code...?? Am I supposed to do something in addition to the simple installation? Thanks...

Hello friends of virtual soaring! I'm glad to announce that CumulusX! 1.9 is on final approach. Manuals are ready and beta testing is ongoing. The main new features are: Precipitation effects: Thermal presence is now affected by rain, drizzle, or snow. Aircraft will have exta sink depending on strength of rain Better compatibility with FSRECORDER: Disable lift maintains now all visuals of thermal situation but leaves control entirely to FSRECORDER so smoothness problems and side effects as ground-wash in mid-air are gone Smoothness of lift in ground proximity has been improved Better model for thermals in proximity of slopes or summits And in licensed mode (or i…

Dear friends of virtual soaring, I'm happy to announce that CumulusX! 1.9 is released with immediate effect. Please find a description and some screenshots of new features here: http://forum.aerosof...al/#entry432504 with best regards and all the best for the new year. Peter

It's still my preferred soaring weather injector for FSX... Any plans for the future?

I was able to test and definitely adhere to what I might call a perfect conbination: FSX ( Gold ) + AS2012 + CumulusX! CumulusX! is probably not a very well known product, it's getting old, but still provides very interesting algorithms for populating the area around your aircraft, particlularly if a glider, with various types of lift and sink or turbulence that we find in real life. While CumulusX! does it's work very well, it lacks a proper weather environment to feed it's algorithms, and that's one of the main problems with default FSX weather. AS2012 provides us with what I still consider to be the most complete and detailled weather injection / simulation pr…