The company is best known for the FS Global area scenery packages, but with the release of FS Global Real Weather (FSGRW) they have taken on the incumbents on their home turf and are gaining a very definite foothold, so why is that? What does FSGRW bring to the table? Well, obviously that’s the job of this article to examine, so let’s get straight on with it.

That last statement doesn’t apply to Pilot’s, however. Pretty much every one promises the most ‘realistic’ weather possible in the sim and most people, certainly most developers, seem to consider it a closed market dominated by one or two major players. There are, and have been for a while, a large number of weather generation and injection packages available for Microsoft’s flight simulator series.