Reviews (by Kris)

Put it this way, the free pushback plug-in is 50x more advanced than this payware addon. I've not seen a more unintuitive plug in.

Systems depth is great, no question. But there are some things lacking compared to other addons, and for this price, they should be addressed. Textures in the cockpit and around the exterior of the aircraft feel dated. After seeing how beautiful some MSFS can be, this aircraft just doesn't hold up to some of the better PBR textures I've seen. The flight model feels extremely heavy and it's hard to manually pilot the aircraft. The delay between when you make an input and when the aircraft responds is slower that even the largest aircraft in the sim. I can imagine this being true for the AN-225, but for and MD-82 this seems a bit exaggerated. The last and biggest complaint I have is the archaic method of installed liveries and changing options on the aircraft. It's done outside the program, but you still have to search through forums and manually install any liveries. The process just feels old. Normally this would all be minor stuff, but again, for THE most expensive aircraft in MSFS atm, this addon needs to do everything better, and it doesn't.

I'd let this one cook in the oven a bit longer. Some initial notes from my experience so far. 1) The UI could be a bit better. There is no indication REX is connected to or sees the position of the aircraft until you inject the weather. 2) A big issue I had is how the weather engine mixes the different metar reports while flying. An example is when I was flying past KBOS which had a METAR of OVC 170, the entire sky turned from clear to overcast even though many METARs next to KBOS were reading CLR. Then when it updated again as I flew away from KBOS, all of the sudden the entire sky cleared up again. There was no cloud front, or blending between METARs at all in sim. This to me is unacceptable. 3) REX doesn't seem to do a great job of following the aircraft, I passed over multiple METARs but REX said it was using live wx data from a metar from 20 - 30 miles ago. Maybe this is the update speed (every 10 min) ? 4) Weather IS more accurate than default MSFS, but honestly without proper fronts and blending between different locations I can't currently recommend this product, it's just too rough around the edges still. I'm hoping if ASOBO opens up their weather API some of these issues can be rectified.