hi,
using FS98 -i downloaded Real Weather
can one run Real Weather with FS98 ?
Ihave tried to use the download but no success. Dont know what to do with
Metar.
Any advice will be appreciated.

Tony

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:41:35 GMT, "ANTHONY ROTHSCHILD"
> wrote:

>hi,
>using FS98 -i downloaded Real Weather
>can one run Real Weather with FS98 ?

No.


>Ihave tried to use the download but no success. Dont know what to do with
>Metar.

Give it up. Microsoft no longer supports FS98 or anything out of that
line (now defunct) .... sorry to say.



>Any advice will be appreciated.
>
>Tony
>

On Thursday, in article
>
"Wrongway Corrigan" wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:41:35 GMT, "ANTHONY ROTHSCHILD"
> > wrote:
>
> >hi,
> >using FS98 -i downloaded Real Weather
> >can one run Real Weather with FS98 ?
>
> No.
>
>
> >Ihave tried to use the download but no success. Dont know what to do with
> >Metar.
>
> Give it up. Microsoft no longer supports FS98 or anything out of that
> line (now defunct) .... sorry to say.

Funny that, it's still being sold retail, in a "budget" edition, in the
UK. Not directly by Microsoft, but not quite dead. Spomtimes just
FS98, sometimes in a double-pack with CFS1. And there were a couple of
cheap releases of FS98 add-ons.

I shall have to do some rummaging, as there definitely was a program for
using Metar data in FS98. It's been a couple of years since I did
anything serious with FS98, and I don't know what's still out there on
websites. I distinctly recall using Metar data.

I'd agree that FS98 is a dead end now, and you're stuck with what's
still floating around as freeware, but it doesn't need a super-machine
to run. It's good enough to be a decent taster of civil flight-simming.



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