Asobo has included a weather API for WASM compilation in SU10. I’m not sure if Fenix can utilize this yet as it’s a bit of mix if JS and WASM.
Absolutely, for that ‘airline ops’ perspective, it’s pretty great. I even like the ‘getting hassled by central’ when you’re late, and you have* to send an ADC code to explain yourself 
*you don’t have to
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One thing to note is (which may or may not be important to you) is that you won’t get full external hardware support nor the ability to run the MCDU in a web interface or remotely with the Fenix…
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Fenix won’t, it seems.
It’s not a Weather API in the sense that we all thought it would be. It’s a callable ‘request for a bitmap’ that you then display.
According to the Fenix devs, not really fit for purpose (my words, not theirs).
This is true. Maybe they’ll eventually get a license tweak to allow that.
The EFB can be used externally on a tablet, which is great.
Despite a few grumbles regarding home cockpit scenarios (and they are legitimate grumbles too), Fenix is clearly designed for desktop use, but in saying that a lot of people have a lot of success using some external hardware with the Fenix.
I use the Honeycomb Alpha (don’t @ me 
), with LogitekThrottles, and rudder pedals. And an x-touch mini that controls virtually all of my autopilot needs (speed, alt, heading, FD, LS, AP, APPR, A/THRST, VS), nav/com radios, lights, and other features (speed brake arming, brake fans, auto-brake, engine starting etc etc).
So you can do lots, or at least what I need it to do.
But not all, and sim vars I don’t think are exposed.
Yes, the ILS volume knob. Navaids, including Localizers, VORs, NDBs emit an audio signal along with the “navigation” signal that you can listen to. Normally in that audio signal there’s a morse code containing the identifier of the Navaid itself. In ILS frequencies it’ll be the ident of the localizer. In VORs the same but sometimes also the ATIS (Yes, many VORs are used to broadcast the ATIS of an airport).
In airplanes that didn’t have a morse translator showing you the name of the station on the screen, we had to actually turn up the volume to identify the station. In modern airplanes that’s not necessary anymore because, like you can see in the screenshot you posted, the airplane will identify the station for you without the need of turning up the volume. The marker is a completely different thing. Markers are in disuse. We use DME now in most cases.
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I use i7 12700K with RTX3070, 1440p monitor, SSD and 32 Gigs of RAM. At EBBR, with Fenix I am getting FPS of 15 inside the cockpit and measly 10 outside. Any pointers will be super helpful.
That’s likely why they went with a weather radar solution for WASM first - there’s already a radar implementation for JS, albeit flawed. It sounds like the WASM implementation will suffer from the same flaws of being a glorified bitmap generator.
Yeah I know, you can actually map quite a number of things, that’s why I said you won’t get ‘full’ external hardware support. Most notable missing are output variables, e.g. you can’t display Heading, Course, Altitude etc on a Logitech panel or other output devices like StreamDeck
I also hope they get around to offer an external MCDU capability, this is for me right now reason enough to keep my purchased Fenix in the hangar…
Lower your render resolution scaling. I’m getting more than double your FPS with an old 9900K and a 2080ti at 4k with 80% render resolution with every setting almost maxed out.
To be fair that’s exactly what it said on the roadmap for ages. It said they will expose the same bitmaps available in JS in WASM. They’ve made no secret of it.
I suspect they’ll not get what they want out of Asobo any time soon, if ever. We know that access to the low level weather data is an unnegotiable no go for Asobo, likely due to the commercial agreements with Meteoblue.
I hope they and all the others holding out on weather radar just implement what they can. In the end the Asobo implementation still functions well enough as a weather radar even if it’s not 100% accurate and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles they may want.
I’m sure Asobo will eventually improve the outputs to provide more advanced features but it’s likely not in their current priority list.
I do the occasional Developer Spotlight video on exceptional a/c for Flight Simulator. The Fenix A320 is a work of art! Highlighted the Airbus in an RNAV/RNP approach to Europe’s highest commercial airport LSZS.
Hi there. Have you also got problems with the TCAS in real time traffic mode. I see the traffic outside the cockpit, but not on TCAS. Set the TCAS to TA/RA and all. Also tried other modes like ABV; BLW. Doesn’t detect any traffic.
Thanks for help.
Alex
Thanks, but your picture shows a Boeing cockpit.
My problem with Fenix A320 in detail:
There is traffic on TCAS in the area of an airport (landing & departing traffic), so everything fine on that. But in cruise level for example, i can see the traffic in the air, but not on TCAS.
Oh it’s supposed to be like that though.
The (Airbus) TCAS will only display traffic on the ND that is a ‘factor’ to the own aircraft. So when it starts climbing or descending through your heading and altitude, it will be displayed …alerted …and even avoided if you operate it in TCAS (Autopilot disconnect and then evasive maneuvers). Once you got that happening, you’ll be sure the Fenix TCAS works.
Also, on your TCAS transponder, there is a little turn knob to scan for Above during climb, Below during descent and Level Flight for cruise. Adjust that one for your vertical profile.
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I’ts a known bug. It also happens to me. And with the terrain radar too. At certain altitude, terrain radar leave to response and never come back, even at low altitudes. I hope developers fix those bugs in a update soon.
TCAS bug and Terrain bug are annoying.
Thanks for your comment! Thought I‘m crazy…..
another nice add-on for the fenix
People keep calling it a terrain radar. Its not! Its a terrain map. Important difference
Richard
Forgive me, Mr. Expert, I didn’t know the importance of calling it terrain radar instead of terrain map in a videogame, where it isn’t one thing nor the another. Sorry for my crime, please, I’m very regret.
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