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PRODUCTMANUALV3


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PRODUCTMANUALV3 PAGE 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

REX Essenal Overview ........................................................................................3

Important Note ....................................................................................................8

Start-Up Procedures .............................................................................................9

Conguraon Manager ......................................................................................10

Opons Manager ................................................................................................23

Quick Start Menu ...............................................................................................25

Textures ..............................................................................................................28

Flight Center .......................................................................................................37

Weather..............................................................................................................52

Fly Now ...............................................................................................................61

Weather Engine Operaons (WASys) .................................................................62

Product Support .................................................................................................64

EULA ...................................................................................................................65


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REX ESSENTIAL OVERVIEW

REX Essential is a complete

weather, environment, and

ight planning add-on for

Microsoft Flight Simulator

X and PREPAR3D. The

development team of REX

Essential is committed to

maximizing the weather,

planning and ight realism

experienced by its ight

simulator customers and we

feel that REX Essential has

come a long way towards

achieving this goal.

REX Essenal is a weather environment creaon, display, and

manipulaon program which includes a robust selecon of beauful

user-selectable or automacally-selectable sky, cloud themesand other environment textures, real-world and custom weather

generators, real-me weather reporng & updang.

REX allows you to control environment, water and airport textures,

as well as lighng eects that are so crical to the enjoyment and

immersion within the ight simulator experience. All of these features

may be fully manipulated to your individual tastes.

For REX Essenal, REX Game Studios has partnered withFlightAware,

the leading aviaon soware and data services company to expand

upon real-world ight planning within REX Essenal.

We have moved all back end data to a local relaonal database. This

allows us to store and do more with the data we have. Having a new

database structure allows us to improve not just one area, but mulple

areas within REX Essenal.

WHAT IS REX EDGE TECHNOLOGY?

REX EDGE Technologyis REX Game Studios version of its own cloud

technology. It is an array of dedicated servers that have been setup

to handle the transfer of large amounts of data to be ulized not only

within REX Essenal, but in all future projects. This technology has

allowed us to expand the connecvity of REX Essenal. All REX users

are now connected in various ways to each other, thus allowing them

to share their creaons with other folks around the world who are

using REX Essenal.


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With REX EDGEyou now have the ability to share

your texture themes with the REX Community.

Suppose you created that killer look and wanted to

share it with others - you now have the ability to dothat. Or with the simple click of a buon you can

install a users theme in a maer of seconds. We

have added categories to themes so that you can

now search for the favorite theme by creator name

or theme category.

WithREX EDGEwe also have included the ability

to back up your texture themes. Therefore, if you

create 100 dierent themes, you will never lose

them if you have created a backup/restore account.

It is that simple! Or in the case of when we issue

an update, in the past you would lose your createdthemes. With this new funcon you will be able to

restore your themes automacally aer the update

has been installed.

REX EDGE also allows us to bring together a

repository of weather data. Every 10 minutes we

are downloading and storing the latest weather

informaon from NOAAand VATSIM. We just

recently implemented the storing and archiving

of real upper-level wind and temperature data

from worlds radiosonde reports. This is extremely

excing to us in that instead of providing a forecast

we are now the only one providing accurate real-

me winds alo data. We have found that this

data has signicantly reduced the quick changes in

winds shis alo. Though we are sll bound by the

limits of FSX technology, this sll brings a realism

not found before in the ight sim community.

Another example of howREX EDGE is used withinREX is aer you congure the program, you will be

prompted to setup a user account. This will create

a user prole on our cloud servers. When you

save your user conguraon in REX, it will be saved

locally on your machine and also on our cloud

servers. If for some reason you need to re-install

Windows or REX, all you have to do is simply login

and your original sengs will be reset from our

servers. You will not be required to login each me

you open REX, as that process will be done for you

automacally. If no internet connecon is present,

you will sll be able to use REX, but you will not beable to ulize this specic feature.

Outside of REX EDGE, we have sped up the

process of installing textures. We have added the

ability to reduce the install me with the click of

a buon. This will only install key textures such

as sky, clouds, wave animaons, and runways/

taxiways. This process eliminates the need for

decompressing large water textures and reseng

to correct resoluons before install.

This technology also opens up a huge amount

of potenal in other areas with future

projects, thus allowing us to connect all of

our technologies together.


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We have partnered with and embedded the

technology of FlightAware into REX Essenal.

Below is a quick, but brief overview of what

FlightAware can do:

With FlightAwareinside REX Essenal, you are

able to search for real-world, real-me IFR ights

scheduled at a single airport or between routes

between two airports. You are provided details

about the ight and then able to import the ightplan into FSX/P3D via REX Essenal.

If you decide to y a real-me, real-world route,

REX will provide current ight nocaons via

the weather engine while in-ight. If selecng an

airport to search, then navigate to another module

of REX, you will be provided regular alerts in REX

of the next ight scheduled to depart from that

airport. REX Essenal will give the most realisc

experience possible with real-world, real-me

ight plans from most major airlines and countries

across the world.

SHARE YOUR FLIGHT PLAN

Say you just own a really interesng ight plan

you created through REX, a third-party ightplanner, FlightAware, or even FSX/P3D and now

youd like to share it with others or save it for later.

With our new REX EDGE Technologywe provide

the means to share your ight plans with other

REX Essenal users around the world.

We sll provide a means to create a ight plan,

but now when you create a ight plan either by

FlightAware, imporng a ight plan from FSX/

P3D, other third-party planners, imporng a

community ight plan, or creang your own, you

will be provided a detailed view. You can view theplan along with all of the associated waypoints

including real winds alo data for each waypoint.

So programming your FMC within the latest

installment of a third-party aircra is much easier.

With REX Essenal you can export your plan and

set your parking starng point. No longer will you

start at the end of the runway, but you can select

whether you want general aviaon parking or to

start from a gate. If using FlightAwarewithin REX,

you can select the actual gate in which the plan

states in its report.

With the new FLIGHT CENTER we bring not just

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NEW SOUNDS AND TEXTURE PROCESSES

REX Essenal now includes true

environment and weather-relatedaudio. We went through great

lengths to maintain a certain

sound through a meculous

mastering process. REX Game

Studios owns and operates a full-edged recording

studio complete with its own mastering facility

using state-of-the-art equipment and we spared

no expense to bring the sound experience to our

users.The dynamic sounds of rain, wind and

thunder will blow you away.

Users with lower-end systems can now selecta compressed algorithm for wave animaon

sets with minimized visual anomalies, as usually

associated with this type of compression.

The new Natural Sky texture set adds a unique

nt to your dawn, day, and dusk skies. Also, now

included is the ability for the user to select cloudsbased upon the cloud type.

The new weather-inuenced process has been

completely re-wrien inside REX Essenal. You will

experience condions closer to what is actually

happening in the real-world. This process will give

you a wider range of variety ulizing all textures

within REX Essenals.

Thank you for choosing REX Essenal

for FSX and Prepar3D as your ightsimulator environment add-on!



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IMPORTANT NOTE

IMPORTANT NOTE:In this manual, buons and tabs that can be clicked or pressed are

spelled exactly as seen on screen and highlighted in bold, such as the FLY

NOWbuon or the MAINtab, as are references to opons and choices

that can be selected/unselected or checked/unchecked, such as Enable

REX Essenal Weather Engineopon. Menu names are also spelled

exactly as you can see them on screen and highlighted in bold as in this

example FLIGHT CENTER. Drive, directory, folder and le names and other

computer locaons and commands will be shown in italics and bolded,

such as C:\Program Files (x86)\Real Environment Xtreme Essenal\

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STARTUP PROCEDURES

Upon opening REX Essenal, you will be presented with the opening splash screen as seen ingure 1.

The installed version number is located on the upper-right hand poron of the screen, while the program

loading process is updated via the blue status bar.

Immediately following start-up, the CONFIGURATION MANAGER,as seen in gure 2 is displayed. The

CONFIGURATION MANAGERis separated into ve core areas; General, Weather Engine, Visibility,

Windand Cloudsengs. The following pages will describe each secon in detail.

gure 1

gure 2

You may navigate the program via the MAIN NAVIGATION BAR, as seen ingure 3.The TEXTURES buon

takes you to the area where textures can be experimented with and installed into ight simulator. The

FLIGHT CENTERbuon takes you to the ight planning and preight weather secon. The WEATHER

buon takes you to the custom weather/real-me weather center. FLY NOW starts the weather engine

and ight simulator. HELPopens the help manual and ABOUT REX navigates you to the secon containing

informaon, program version number and the folks behind REX Essenal.

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SIMULATOR FOLDER LOCATION

Click BROWSEand navigate to the main simulator

installaon folder. In the example above on a

Windows 7(32-bit) system, the locaon is as

follows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microso Games\

Microso Flight Simulator X

ENTER YOUR PROFILE NAME

This area allows you to aach a prole name to the

various community shared features within REX.

SOUND AND NOTIFICATION SETTINGSEnable in-applicaon nocaons- Allows you

to enable/disable all in-applicaon nocaons

such as community ight-plan and texture sharing,

etc. All nocaons appear on the boom of the

REX applicaon interface, and is considered the

INFORMATION CENTER.

Enable applicaon sounds- Allows you to enable/

disable the program sound eects.

RESTORE DEFAULT SETTINGS

Selecng this buon will restore all of your REX

sengs program-wide to factory default.

BACKUP/RESTORE CONFIGURATION

Allows the backup and restoraon of all REX

conguraon, opons and texture theme sengs

via the REX Data Servers. A very useful feature that

allows you to fully recover all of your REX sengs

in case you need to perform a reinstall of the REX.

This feature takes a snapshot of your sengs and

stores them for future use. Click BACKUPand theinformaon form appears (gure 4). If a prole

name has already been entered prior to entering

this secon, the USERNAME is automacally

populated. Only ONE backup may be created,

starng the protocol which allows your sengs on

exit of REX to speak to the data servers. PLEASE

WRITE THIS INFORMATION DOWN AND KEEP

IN A SAFE PLACE FOR FUTURE USE.

CONFIGURATION MANAGER

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To create an account, ll in the appropriate informaon; E-mail Address, Conrm E-mail, Username,Password and Conrm Password. Select CREATE. To restore your user sengs, ll in your Username and

Password and select RESTORE. Select CANCELto cancel the process and return to the main

CONFIGURATION MANAGER.


GENERAL CONFIGURATION(connued)

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ENTER REX P3D LICENSE KEY

REX Essenal was specically created for FSX as well as Lockheed Marns Prepar3D. This secon is

for the user that would like to use REX for FSX AND/OR Prepar3D. Purchasing a REX/Prepar3D license

will unlock all the features specic to the Prepar3D plaorm, and will be conrmed by the eld being

populated with the serial number and the REX applicaon header will be updated, as seen ingure 5.

Selecng the SUBMITbuon will store your purchase locally in the REX database as well as the online

data servers.

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CREATE/RESTORE BACKUP TEXTURES

CREATEwill backup all FSX/P3D textures. When

the backup process is nished, a folder with the

name Inial_Backup will be displayed in the

backup window. RESTOREwill restore the les

to what they were before REX was installed. REX

saves a backup copy of all textures and other les

that are modied by REX.

REX will backup what textures are installed now. If

no other add-ons have been installed that modify

textures, then the backup will consist of the FSX

default les. If you installed other similar add-ons

similar to REX, the backup will contain these les

and NOT FSX default les. If default FSX textures are

desired in the backup, other add-ons must be restored

or uninstalled before running the REX backup.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If the need arises to uninstall REX Essenal, be sure to rst restore your FSX/P3D defaulttextures by going to the CONFIGURATION MANAGERpage and RESTORE. Aer the restore hascompleted, close REX Essenal and go to the Windows Control Panel\Add or Remove Programsand click on Real Environment Xtreme Essenal and select Remove. This will uninstall REXEssenal from your system. Aer this process completes, browse to the locaon where youinstalled REX Essenal and delete any remaining folders. Running a registry cleaner is highlyadvised to remove any residual registry entries. We suggest a free program called cCleaneravailable at www.piriform.com/ccleaner

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INITIAL WEATHER DELAY TIMER

The IWDT is a special mer that allows you to set

the iniaon me in which the REX Weather Engine

will begin to inject weather into FSX/P3D. You may

select a starng me between 1 and 5 minutes.

This is extremely useful in that a shorten wait me

allows the REX Weather Engine to inject weather

while you are sll conguring FSX/P3D.

WEATHER SURFACE REGION

Allows you to select the size of weather region

travelled before weather engine loads again. Rangesfrom 4,225 sq. miles, up to covering the enre world.

Within the weather engine (WASys), consists a new

menu item which allows seng the weather refresh

me from 60 / 30 / 15 minutes. These features work

together to provide the most accurate weather within

a mely maer. If for example you travel outside the

weather region, REX refreshes the weather region

and resets the mer, or if passing the me seng for

refresh, REX will reset your region size.

WEATHER REFRESH RATE

This causes the REX WX Engine to reload weather

based upon me. If you y out of the weather

region, then the mer is reset. If you dont y out

of the weather region but the mer resets, then

the region area is also reset.

WEATHER INJECTION ALTITUDE SETTINGS

This feature allows you to set the minimum

altude in feet in which the weather engine will

engage and inject weather into FSX/P3D. The REX

weather engine will perform an inial weatherload, but consecuve injecons will be based upon

the altude of your aircra and the minimum

injecon altude. During descent, the weather

will not inject aer the aircra descends below

the minimum altude. You may force a weather

injecon by selecng the LOAD WEATHER menu

item on the WASys.

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GENERAL WEATHER ENGINE SETTINGS

Enable REX Weather Engine- Allows the REX

Essenal weather engine to be used for weather

related tasks. If you wish to use another weather

engine, simply uncheck this box.

Enable Auto-Start the REX Weather Engine-

Enabling this opon will cause REX to start the

weather engine when REX starts FSX/P3D.

Enable Auto Launch the Flight Simulator- This

allows REX Essenal to autostart FSX/P3D fromwithin the REX Essenal GUI. Uncheck this opon

if using REX Essenal in a network situaon.

Enable VATSIM Weather data - The default

weather source for REX Essenal is NOAA, but we

also provide the VATSIM weather data that comes

directly from the VATSIM weather servers.

Enable Green Message Bar Within FSX- Per user

feedback, this new feature allows you to turn ON

or OFF the green informaon bar within ight

simulator. However, be aware that this informaon

bar also advises the status of weather engine

injecon, so if you noce the weather engine not

injecng weather, be certain to check this feature

is set to ON.

Enable Weather Data Overwrite- This is a new

feature that allows REX to download the weather

every 10 minutes and overwrite the previous dataso that you are presented with the latest weather

data during ight. If disabled, this feature will only

download weather once every hour. (Does not

refer to the weather injecon process)

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Enable Archive Weather Data Purge at Closing-

Aer quite some me, the REX Database will grow

in size due to the weather download data. You

may not want to store archived weather data. This

opon allows you to delete this data when you

close REX.

Enable Realisc Haze Layer- Enabling this opon

is another feature users requested to have control

over. Inially we have disabled this feature in FSX

as its viewed as more of a nuisance rather than a

usable feature. Although this will create hard edgeswhen intersecng with terrain, and cause a cloud-

type formaon to follow the aircra, for certain IFR

condions this will help immerse the user.

Enable Weather Data Download- This feature

turns ON or OFF the ability for REX Essenal to

download weather from its weather sources.

WEATHER INTERPOLATING SETTINGS

Enable Interpolaon of Weather Staons -

This feature turns ON or OFF the process of

interpolang weather from the weather feeds,

thus allowing REX to ll in the gaps where weather

is missing in FSX/P3D via the weather data feeds

received. For more accurate level of weather

polaon, the slider should be moved towards thele. However, few staons will actually receive

interpolaon. Moving to the right will increase the

number of staons with weather, but the weather

will be less accurate.

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REAL WEATHER VISIBILITY SETTINGS

Enable Real Visibility - This feature forces the

REX Weather Engine to ulize the actual visibility

seng provided by the metar report. Turning o

this feature causes the REX Weather Engine to use

a default seng of 20NM or to use the sengs

provided in the GLOBAL VISIBILITY LAYERS.

Enable Real Visibility Smoothing- This feature

helps create more smoothness to the visibility

across a region. Thus, because of the limitaons

of the FSX/P3D visibility plane we are sll ableto produce a smooth transion vercally and

horizontally. However, this will also cause your

metar reports to not accurately report the visibility

for each staon.

FOG GENERATION SETTINGS

Enable Real Weather Fog - With this feature

turned on, the REX Weather Engine is forced to

ulize special processes to create a more realisc

fog representaon vercally and horizontally

based upon the metar report.

Enable Stratus Clouds As Fog - To add more depth

to fog within FSX/P3D, we have coded an opon

for you to allow the REX weather engine to ulize

stratus clouds to bring more realism to their ight

experience. This gives you a feeling of transion asyou y out of a fog deck.

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SET GLOBAL VISIBILITY LAYERS

This allows you to custom set your own visibility

layers that override real visibility sengs. You may

set a range and then select the layer height by foot

above ground level. The slider has the following

values, by using the mouse to grab the slider and

moving it le to right: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 Naucal Miles (NM).

This will take some experimenng and will yield a

sasfactory soluon to the haze problem.

Every user will have their own ideas about this and

hopefully most users can arrive at a sasfactory

compromise between haze and reality. We realize

that this is not an opmum soluon for everyone

but ight simulator does not allow many other

choices in this regard. Using this feature will

supersede real weather visibility.

VISIBILITY CONFIGURATION (connued)



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MAXIMUM WIND TURBULENCE

This allows you to set the maximum severity of the

winds at the surface and alo. This level ranges

from one (1) to ve (5). 1 referencing the lowest

and 5 represenng the most extreme condions.

MAXIMUM WIND SHEAR

This allows you to set the maximum eect of wind

shear at the surface and alo. This level ranges

from one (1) to four (4). 1 referencing the lowest

and 4 represenng the most extreme condions.

WIND TURBULENCE/SHEAR

Enable Real Weather Winds- This allows you to

turn ON or OFF the real weather wind provided by

NOAA/VATSIM/RADIOSONDE reports. If this opon

is turned OFF, you may use the GLOBAL WIND

LAYER funcon to set your own wind levels.

Enable Real Weather Wind Smoothing- Defaults

winds from current locaon of aircra at all levels

and forces weather staons surrounding the

aircra with the same wind. This opon ulizes

mulple levels of winds read from the radiosonde

reports. When updates occur, they occur on

the fringes of the weather region so that radical

changes do not happen at the aircra. When

the weather updates, it reads the original wind

sengs and compares them to the new ones from

the region and then modies them slowly.


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Enable Hyper Weather Wind Smoothing- Keeps

surface wind the same at all staons, but takes the

next level winds and globalizes for all surrounding

staons around the aircra. It forces the next level

of winds up to 39,000. This oers both vercal

and horizontal wind smoothing. As updates occur,

changes happen over me, but very gradually and

upon the fringes of the weather region. Probably

the most unrealisc form of represenng winds, but

creates the smoothest opon for wind handling.

Enable Wind Turbulence- This opon turns ON orOFF the eects of wind turbulence within the REX

weather engine inside FSX/P3D.

Enable Wind Shear- Enables you to have that

scary experience of ying in thunderstorms

and other severe weather. This may increase

wind shis and other wind anomalies to an

unacceptable and/or unrealisc level. If this

happens, disable this feature to give more smooth

realisc transion experience between clear,

cloudy, and storm condions.

SET GLOBAL WIND LAYERS

This new feature allows you to customize the wind

layers, wind speeds and wind direcon globally.

This will overwrite default weather if the Enabled

Real Weather Winds is unchecked. This defaults

the FSX/P3D winds to the layers created within

this module. You may set maximum wind speedin KTS., direcon and wind layer height. This

overrides all other wind sengs.

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MAXIMUM TURBULENCE

Allows you to dene the maximum level that

clouds will exert turbulence. This ranges from

the minimum level of one (1) to maximum of ve

(5). Level 5 will denitely shake and bake your

passengers! This does not mean each cloud will

experience level 5 turbulence, it just means that

you may experience up to level 5 turbulence.

MAXIMUM CLOUD ICING

Allows you to set the maximum level in which icing

will be experienced while ying through clouds.The minimum level of one (1) means very lile to

the maximum level of ve (5). This does not mean

that you will experience level 5 icing in each cloud

scenario, but it is the maximum allowed level.

CLOUD RATIOS

Allows you to determine what the rao of clouds

used at mid/low levels are. If you select cumulus,

then the majority of the clouds at lower levels

will be of the cumulus form. If you set the middle

level, you will experience a mixture of cumulus

and stratus. If you set stratus, then the majority of

clouds experienced will be of the stratus form.

CLOUD/STORM ENHANCEMENTS

Enable Enhanced Thunderstorms- When enable,

this opon causes FSX/P3D to use the maximum

level of severity to enhance how thunderstorms

are represented.

Enable Enhanced Lightning- This creates a morerealisc view of lightning that gives more depth to

the way thunderstorms are represented.

Enable Storm Scud- We like to call this the

meanness factor. This applies an added feeling

of meanness to the thunderstorm look while upon

the ground or ying at lower altudes. You will

experience more inmidang cloud structures

with this seng enabled.

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CLOUD/TURB/SHEAR/ICING

Enable Cloud Icing- This opon turns ON or OFF

cloud icing within the REX Weather Engine. Select

this opon to provide more realisc icing eects

while in-ight.

Enable Cloud Turbulence - This turns ON or OFF

cloud turbulence within the REX weather engine.

GLOBAL CLOUD LAYERS

Enable Global Cirrus Cloud Deck- Somemes

ying in areas with lile or no weather simplylooks boring. We have provided the means for a

global layer of cirrus clouds to be used for those

occasions. When enabled, a global layer of cirrus

type clouds will appear.

Enable Global Cumulus Cloud Deck - We have

provided the means for a global layer of cumulus

clouds. When enabled, a global layer of cumulus

type clouds will appear.

CUMULUS DEFINITION

This allows you to change the structure

representaon of the cumulus cloud denion

from uy to a more at look.

STRATUS DEFINITION


representaon of the stratus cloud denion from

chaoc to more stable.

CUMULONIMBUS DEFINITION


representaon of the cumulonimbus cloud from

an anvil to towering structure.

CLOUD CONFIGURATION(connued)



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OPTIONS MANAGER

The OPTION MANAGER, as seen ingure 6,controls which textures are installed into FSX/P3D.

The OPTIMIZATIONarea controls the resoluon

and algorithm of textures installed, and an overall

system performance secon which allows REX to

decide which sengs are best suitable depending

on the capabilies of your computer system.

The DE-SELECTbuon allows you to easily and

quickly deselect/select all sengs on this menu.

A few notes about the OPTIONS MANAGER need

to be menoned here:

This secon controls which textures are installed

into FSX/P3D. Any changes made to this menu will

not take aect unl the textures are loaded into

ight simulator.

Textures cannot be loaded into FSX/P3D whileight simulator is running! Many users make

the mistake of trying to install textures while

ight simulator is running. The result is a crash

in ight simulator, REX or both. So if a crash is

encountered, or some other unexplained behavior

while iniang this process, quickly check to see if

ight simulator is running.

Use of the 4096 or 2048 textures will cause serious

performance issues for most lower end systems.

Use of the higher resoluon textures will result in

lower frame rates and performance whereas useof the lower resoluon textures will result in lower

quality.If performance issues are experienced, try

using the lower resoluon textures. These lower

resoluon textures are sll exceponal and many

people nd that they desire and use these textures

even though they have higher end systems.

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OPTIONS MANAGER

Once the textures have been loaded into ight

simulator, un-checking the box does NOTcause

them to be uninstalled. It means that you can load

the textures into ight simulator and then uncheck

that box and REX Essenal wont install them again

in the future. As described below for the water

textures, this can save a LOT of me.

It will require anywhere from 6 to 15 minutes,

depending on the system, to load textures if all boxes

are checked. This me can be signicantly reduced

(down to 1 minute)by de-selecng all the water

texture boxes. For those folks that want to connue to

experiment with various other texture sets, but dontwant to wait the lengthy load mes, we recommend

that you install the water textures once, then de-select

all water texture boxes. Because water textures were

already installed, they will remain installed throughout

subsequent texture installs as described above and the

install me will drop signicantly. If you would like to

experiment with dierent water textures, those water

check boxes must be checked.

We highly recommend the use of the DXT5

Opmized Clouds seng. DXT5 is the most

exible general purpose compression codec, so

if problems are experienced using REX Essenal

clouds at higher resoluon, select the DXT5

Opmized Clouds seng. The same goes for the

Wave Animaon seng. 32-bit is much more

demanding on the GPU, thus if problems arise

with the use of the 32-bit seng, select the DXT-1

opon, and be sure to install the textures into

ight simulator for the changes to take aect.

Overall System Performance Sengs- This drop

down menu contains four system performancelevels you may choose from. The boom three are

self explanatory. Choose one of these three and

watch how the sengs in the other areas of this

page change. If you would like your own custom

sengs, choose CUSTOM.


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QUICK START MENU

The QUICK START secon contains three large buons which allow you to quickly perform certain acons.

WANT TO FLY

Allows REX to randomly

select and install textures

into FSX/P3D, then opens

both the ight simulator and

the REX Weather Engine.

LIKE TO CREATE

Allows you to create texture

themes, select and install

textures/sounds or share/

browse textures with the rest

of the REX community.

FOLLOW A FLIGHT PLAN

Allows creaon of ight plans

(with real-me, random or

archived weather), interface

with FlightAware real-world

live ight plans, or save/browse

community-shared ight plans.


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By selecng I JUST WANT TO FLY, you will noce a dialogue box

advising REX Essenal is randomly selecng, preparing and installing

textures into FSX/P3D. There are two choices here: (1) selecng CANCEL

(gure 7) immediately stop the process or (2) allow REX to carry out

the process. If cancelled, you will be presented with a vericaon of

opening FSX/P3D (gure 8). Selecng OKwill cause REX to open the

FSX/P3D, or select CANCELto end the enre process.

By selecng I LIKE TO CREATE, you will be navigated to the main TEXTURESpage as seen ingure 9. This

area is for the user who would like to select textures, create texture themes and share/browse textures

with the rest of the REX community. This secon is described in greater detail on page 28.

QUICK START MENU

gure 7 gure 8

gure 9


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QUICK START MENU

By selecng I JUST WANT TO FOLLOW A FLIGHT

PLAN, you will be presented with the CONFIGURE

WEATHER LOAD PROCEDURE window as seen in

gure 10. Hereyou may select real-world/real-me

weather, random weather or archived weather on

your ight within FSX/P3D. This area is for the user

that wants to create or import a ight plan, viewpotenal weather that may be present along the

ight path (real-me weather), analyze the various

navigaon logs that REX Essenal creates, and have

REX choose and install textures appropriate for the

weather.

You may also interface with FlightAwaresreal-

world live ight plans and upload/browse ightplans with the rest of the REX community.

gure 10

IMPORTANT NOTE:

The descripons above for the three QUICK STARTbuons are explained in greater

detail in their respecve chapters. Please view and read these chapters to fully realize

what each feature is capable of.!


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TEXTURES

The TEXTURESpage, as seen ingure 11, consistsof 9 texture selecon windows and a drop-down

menu. Clicking on any one of the 9 rectangular

windows expand each secon so you may select

more textures within that genre. When all textures

have been selected, SAVEis used to name and

save the overall texture theme.

INSTALLis used to load textures into FSX/P3D. The

name of the installed theme is displayed on the

lower le-hand corner of the screen.

SELECT A TEXTURE THEMEis a drop-downselecon menu containing a list of texture themes

shipped with REX Essenal and any themes

created by you. Highlighng a theme name will

cause it to be loaded into the 9 smaller windows,

and will be installed into ight simulator when

INSTALLis selected.

DELETEis used to delete texture themes from thedrop-down menu.Highlighng a theme name and

selecng DELETEwill remove it from the list.

RANDOMIZEallows REX to randomly choose

texture themes from each of the 9 windows

automacally. This is a great feature, and is one

way to have a unique and interesng ight every

me. There are countless combinaons possible!

Clicking on the SOUND ICONon

this page allows the user to preview

the sounds available within REX asa compilaon rather than a single-

sound source preview, allowing you a

full auditory experience of what REX is capable of

while in-ight.

gure 11


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TEXTURES

BROWSEand SHAREare newfeatures within REX Essenal

ulizing REX EDGE Technology.

With REX EDGEyou now have

the ability to share your texture

themes with the REX Community. If you create that

killer look and would like to share it with others, you

now have the ability to do that. Or with the simple

click of a buon you can install a users texture

theme in a maer of seconds. We have added

categories to texture themes so that you can now

search by creator name or texture theme category.

Select BROWSEon the TEXTURESpage and

the window ingure 12appears. Within this

window you may search, select and load texture

themes that other REX usershave created. Secon Ain

gure 12 above represents

the available texture themes.

Once you choose a texture set

to experiment with, click the

THEME ID number to automacally load the

desired theme into the texture windows. You may

narrow the available criteria by using the SEARCH

funcon as shown in secon Bingure 12above.

ON THE MAIN TEXTURES PAGE, YOU MUST

SELECT THE INSTALL BUTTON FOR THETEXTURES TO LOAD INTO FSX/P3D.

You may exit this screen at any me by selecng

CANCELto return to the main TEXTURESpage.

gure 12


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TEXTURES

Once you are sased with the textures youhave selected via the TEXTURESpages, and wish

to share your textures selecons with the REX

community, select SHARE, and the window in

gure 13appears. Within this window you will

need to enter a THEME NAMEand choose a

THEME CATEGORYfor your set to share.

Once the elds are entered, selecng SHAREwill conrm the addion of your creaon to the

database as seen ingure 14. Now others from

within the REX community will be able to search,

nd, load and experiment with your texture set

inside of FSX/P3D.

gure 13

gure 14


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TEXTURES

gure 15

The 9 texture windows are the meat and potatoes

of selecng your desired textures within REX

Essenal. Below we discuss each window and how

to use them. However, aer seng up one window,

the other windows will be easily understood.

Selecng theSKY TEXTURESwindow displays the

screen shown ingure 15. Lets take a detailed

look at how these windows work. On the le

side of the window there is a picture of how the

selectedSKY TEXTUREappears in-game. Thename, REX Natural Dawnis shown in the drop-

down menu just under the large screenshot. On

the right side is a picture of the what the texture

consists of, including a short descripon.

To select another texture in the SUNRISEcategory,

either click on one of the two arrows under the

small screenshot on the right side of the screen or

use the drop-down menu to select another texture

set. Click on any name in the list to select that set.

Choose your desired texture set and click on SELECT

to commit to it, or CANCELto exit the current

screen and return to the main TEXTURESpage.

Note also the 3 tabs in the upper-right corner

of the page. There are also Dayme & Sunsettexture sets to consider.

You may now move on to the DAYTIMEand

SUNSETtexture areas by selecng on the

corresponding tabs.

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TEXTURES

gure 16

Clicking on theCLOUD TEXTURESwindow

displays the screen shown ingure 16.

Noce that the 3D CLOUDStab is highlighted and

the selecon shown is one of the beauful High

Denion (HD) cloud themes, Cumulus Set: 31

Cumulus HD Enabled. There are only two tabs,

3D CLOUDS, (which contain cumulus, stratus and

wispy clouds), and the CIRRUS CLOUDS tab.

Click on the drop-down menu or select the on-screenarrow keys to view the various selecons. If the high-

denion clouds are desired, you must choose a set

that displays the HD logo within the window pane.

Choose your desired texture set and click on the

SELECTto commit to it, or select the CANCEL

buon to exit the screen and return to the main

TEXTURESpage. Select the CIRRUS CLOUDS

tab, make a selecon and click on the SELECTor

CANCELbuons as previously described.

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TEXTURES

INLAND WATER WINDOW - EXPANDED

gure 17

The choices in the next set of windows, INLAND,

OCEAN WATERand TROPICAL WATERare all

modied the same way, but dierently than the

previous windows. Sliders are addionally used to

customize textures further. This technique will be

illustrated in detail here with the INLAND WATER

Window. The exact same procedure is used to

modify theOCEAN WATERand the TROPICAL

WATER textures.

TheINLAND WATER TEXTURES window isidened above ingure 17. Noce there are

two tabs, Inland BlueandInland Brown, a drop-

down selecon window, four sliders, Plankton,

Saturaon, Brightness, and Contrast. There are

also two windows above the drop-down selecon

window, the le of which displays the original

water texture, and the right window displays the

changes you make to the textures.

The sliders are moved one-by-one, to the le and

right, causing changes to the water textures. As

an example, Deep Blue Eyes is selected on the

Inland Bluewater tab ingure 17 and displays the

changes when the top slider(Plankton)on the

Inland Bluewindow are moved to the right.

The color of the texture within the right hand box

changes from a turquoise to deep blue. Similarly,

the other sliders can be adjusted unl the water

has just the right look. When all adjustments to theINLAND WATER have been completed, including

both INLAND BLUE and INLAND BROWNtabs,

select SAVEto save all the changes made. You will be

prompted to give each water texture theme a name.

This exact procedure is used for the remaining

water texture windows, OCEAN WATER(gure

18) and TROPICAL WATER (gure 19).


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OCEAN AND TROPICAL WATER WINDOWS - EXPANDED

gure 18

gure 19


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TEXTURES

TROPICAL WATER WINDOW - EXPANDED

gure 20

We highly recommend that users who have an

interest in experimenng with these texture sets

try out all the various texture modicaon tools

described in these last few pages and nd out

what looks best to you. When ying in dierent

locaons, you may want to use dierent texture

themes. For example, coral reefs found in Hawaii

as seen ingure 20 are not going to be found at

the Great Barrier Reef.

The Wave Animaon, Runway/Taxiways, Airport

Environment, andSun/Lighng area are all the

same as the Sky Texturesand Cloud Texturesareas

in regards to how you modify them. Whereas the

Wave Animaon(gure 21) has only one theme

to modify, the Runway/Taxiwaysand Airport

Environment themes each have 4 tabs that can be

modied and the Sun/Lighngarea has 6 tabs that

can be modied.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Landclass and waterclass les are what ulmately determine what is found in a certain locaonwithin ight simulator. REX Essenal only provides the textures. It is the landclass that actuallycalls for certain textures and places them into the simulator.!


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WAVE ANIMATION WINDOW - EXPANDED

gure 21

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Wave animaons will only work with the FSX water seng of Low 2X or higher.!


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The new FLIGHT CENTERis used when you wishto create or import an exisng ight plan, review

the weather along the route, and review/print out

the ight nav log and weather logs. You may use

the capabilies of REX Essenal to examine this

weather and carefully choose and install textures

into ight simulator that best represent the

weather for the route.

You may also interface with FlightAwaresreal-

world live ight plans and upload or browse ight

plans with the rest of the REX community with REX

EDGE Technology.

Upon entering the FLIGHT CENTER, you are

presented with the CONFIGURE WEATHER LOAD

PROCEDUREdialogue box as it appears ingure

22. You may select real-world/real-me weather,

random weatheror archived weatheron youright within FSX/P3D. Each of these will be

described in detail within the WEATHERsecon of

this manual.

FLIGHT CENTER

gure 22


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FLIGHT CENTER

gure 23

Aer selecng the type of weather you wish to use

for your ight, select OK. The rst screen within

the new FLIGHT CENTERas shown ingure 23

appears. This area is labeled REAL FLIGHT PLANS,

as seen on the large vercal tab to the le-side of

the screen. The two other secons within the new

FLIGHT CENTERare COMMUNITY FLIGHT PLANS

and CREATE A FLIGHT PLAN, as seen on the large

vercal tabs to the right-side of the screen.

The REAL FLIGHT PLANSarea is for users who wish

to use the FlightAwaretechnology built into REX

Essenal. *This a subscripon-based service.

To subscribe for the built-in FlightAware

technology within REX Essenal, clickSUBSCRIBE

NOW. You will be presented with the payment area

as seen ingure 24. Be sure to accurately complete

all areas of the form to ensure correct processing.

Sorry, but PayPal payments will not be accepted.

*REX Game Studios incurs costs with use of this service each me a

user interacts with FlightAware. REX Game Studios does not store

personal payment informaon (e.g. credit card informaon) on its

servers or databases. Payment informaon is transmied securely

using encrypon technology and processed through a secure third-

party payment gateway.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

The FlightAware subscripon-based service is not mandatory to take full advantage of other

built-in ight planning features.!

REAL FLIGHT PLANSFlightAware


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gure 24

gure 25

REAL FLIGHT PLANSFlightAware(connued)

FLIGHT CENTER

Aer you have entered your informaon correctly, click PAY NOWand you will be connected with

the Authorize.net servers to complete and process the payment.REX GAME STUDIOS IS A VERIFIED

AUTHORIZE.NET MERCHANT. Once payment is processed, you will be emailed a receipt within 24 hours,

however access to the FlightAware area within REX Essenal is unlocked immediately as seen ingure 25.


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FLIGHT CENTER

With FlightAwareincorporated into REX Essenal,

you are able to search for real-world, real-me IFR

ights scheduled at a single airport or between

routes between two airports. You are provided

details about the ight and then able to import the

ight plan into FSX/P3D via REX Essenal.

If you decide to y a real-me, real-world route,

REX will provide current ight nocaons via the

weather engine while in-ight. If selecng an airport

to search, then navigate to another module of REX,

you will be provided regular alerts in REX of the next

ight scheduled to depart from that airport.

Upon entering the FlightAwaresecon, you will

noce aCANCEL SUBSCRIPTIONbuon, which is

used to cancel your FlightAwaresubscripon at

any me. However, doing so will immediately halt

all FlightAwareacons within REX Essenal.

SEARCH FOR FLIGHTS BETWEEN AIRPORTS

Within this secon, using the Departure (ICAO

CODE)and Arrival (ICAO CODE)elds, you may

search routes between two airports. Ingure 26

above, we are using KPHX as the departure, and

KJFK as the arrival. Select GET FLIGHTSto retrieve

all ights within these parameters. Once the

servers return the results, the elds are populated

with all of the data, including departure airport

informaon, airline ight ID, airline, aircra,

departure and arrival mes.

In the example above, we have chosen ight ID

AWE12, which is US Airways deparng KPHX at

9:13am and arriving 1:29pm. Aircra type is the

A321. Simply click on the giht ID link to load

the FlightAware plan into the REX Essenal ight

planning module. This may take some me,

depending on the complexity of the ight plan led.


gure 26


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FLIGHT CENTER

Once the ight plan has been successfully loaded

into REX Essenal, you are presented with the

preliminary ight plan informaon as seen ingure

27, including;name of air carrier,type of aircra,

schedule status,origin,desnataon,gate

assignments,metar,led speed,led altude,

led duraon,and nally the led route.

Selecng BACKwill return you to the previous

screen, while selecng LOAD PLANwill actually

parse, create and load the FlightAwareight plan

in REX Essenal. Again, this process may take some

me, depending on the complexity of the route

led. Please be paent while this processes.


gure 27


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FLIGHT CENTER

Once the ight plan is fully loaded, you are

presented with theFLIGHT PLAN DETAILS screen,

as seen ingure 28. This example illustrates the

result aer a FlightAwareight plan is submied.

Lets take a moment to go over this screen. Note

the secon labelled FLIGHT PLANWAYPOINTS.

This area displays crucial ight plan informaon

along the route including wind speeds, winds alo

details, waypoints, distance to next waypoint, total

distance, total me and waypoint IDs.

There are two buons above the center area

labeled NAV LOGand SHARE. The NAV LOGbuon

opens a notepad le containing all of the pernent

informaon for the ight plan. You may save or

print this plan for a more interesng ight.

SHAREis a great new feature in the ight planner

that allows you to share your ight plans with the

rest of the REX community. Selecng SHAREopens

up the dialog box as seen ingure 29.

Within this screen are several elds required

in order to share your ight plan with the REX

community. If you have already entered a PROFILE

NAMEin the CONFIGURATION MANAGER, then

this eld is automacally lled in for you.


gure 28

gure 29


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The other elds that need to be selected or lled

in are: FLIGHT TYPE, AIRLINE NAME, AIRPORT

PARKINGand DEPARTURE TIME (local). When all

elds are completed, selecng CANCELwill return

you back to the FLIGHT PLAN DETAILSarea, while

selecng SHAREwill upload your plan to the REX

data servers for immediate use by all other REX

customers within the community.

The waypoint IDcolumn of the FLIGHT PLAN

WAYPOINTSarea is used to add & delete

waypoints. Selecng on ANY IDlink will open the

WAYPOINT CONFIGURATIONscreen as seen in

gure 31. This is where you may add or delete

waypoints to the ight plan, or search waypoints.

Select the IDlink of the waypoint you wish todelete or simply search for it in the given SEARCH

eld, then click DELETEto remove that waypoint

from the current plan. To add a waypoint, select

or search the desired waypoint, then click ADD

WAYPOINT. The ight plan will now be updated. gure 31

gure 30

FLIGHT CENTER



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There are 6 buons along the boom of the

FLIGHT PLAN DETAILSscreen, as seen ingure

32,which allow REX Essenal to perform mulple

tasks aer your desired ight plan is ready.

BACKnavigates you back to the previous screen.

RELOAD WXreloads the most current weather.

This is handy if you have taken me in preparing

your ight plan and you would like to make sure

you are presented with the latest weather data for

your ight plan.

WX TEXTURES is used to analyze weather

condions and choose a set of textures that

match. Select WX TEXTURES and REX Essenal will

begin installing textures into ight simulator.

WX AVOIDANCEis a real-me weather view with

the ight plan overlaid upon the map. This is

known as the Weather Avoidance System (WASys)

and is described in more detail later in this manual.

SAVEdisplays a dialogue box which allows the

current ight plan to be saved in .pln format. These

ight plans can be imported into FSX/P3D.

FLY NOWstarts the process of opening ight

simulator(if enabled in the CONFIGURATION

menu)and the weather engine(if enabled in the

CONFIGURATIONmenu).

gure 32

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It is very important that FSX or Prepar3D is NOT

running before selecng the WX TEXTURES process.!

FLIGHT CENTER



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FLIGHT CENTER

gure 33

The CREATE A FLIGHT PLANarea, as seen ingure

33, is used to create your own ight plan to be

used within FSX and Prepar3D.

Looking at this screen more carefully, you will

noce a BROWSEbuon opon, a series of

searchable elds that need to be lled in and a

SUBMITbuon.

BROWSEallows you to import previously created

ight plans from REX or FSX. Select BROWSEand

locate the ight plan. Select INSTALLand the

ight plan will be loaded into the REX Essenal

ight planner. If some of the elds are missing, an

orange *will remind you of the required elds that

need be completed.

To create a ight plan, enter in the aircra,

departure, arrival and alternate airports in the

appropriate elds. All these elds can be searched

by selecng the ADD AIRCRAFT or SEARCHbuons.

The other elds will have a very similar pop-up

menu, and the method of using these menus is the

same as described for theAIRCRAFT SELECTION

MENU. There are two lters labeled Aircra Type

and Aircra Rangeas well as a lisng of available

choices. To select an aircra, simply click on the

aircra name and it will automacally be added

to the eld in the ight planner along with a

default altude and airspeed that is added to the

respecve elds. These can be changed by eding

the elds aerwards.

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FLIGHT CENTER

gure 34

If the required aircra is not present within the list

of available aircra, new aircra can be added by

selecng ADD NEW. The ADD A NEW AIRCRAFT

menu shown ingure 34.

Fill in the required informaon, select SAVEand

the aircra will be added to the aircra list.

Click on this new aircra within list and the

aircra, altude and air speed will be populated

into their respecve elds. CANCELreturns to the

AIRCRAFT SELECTIONmenu.

CREATE A FLIGHT PLAN (connued)


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gure 35

A completed form, as seen ingure 35, is set up

for a ight from Los Angeles (KLAX) to Denver

(KDEN) with Colorado Springs (KCOS) as an

alternate. The aircra is a Boeing 757 at a modied

altude of 37,000 (FL370), with a modied speed

of 450 kts and 6 desired waypoints.

At this point the data entry is nished and the plan

can be submied by selecng SUBMIT. A message

will be displayed stang that REX Essenal is

processing the ight plan. Please be paent, this

could take me, depending on the amount of

waypoints selected.


FLIGHT CENTER


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When REX has completed the compiling the ight

plan, the screen illustrated ingure 36appears.

This example illustrates the result aer a ight plan

is submied.

Lets take a moment to go over this screen. Note

the secon labelled FLIGHT PLANWAYPOINTS.

This area displays crucial ight plan informaon

along the route including wind speeds, winds alo

details, waypoints, distance to next waypoint, total

distance, total me and waypoint IDs.

There are two buons above the center area

labeled NAV LOGand SHARE. The NAV LOGbuon

opens a notepad le containing all of the pernent

informaon for the ight plan. You may save or

print this plan for a more interesng ight.

SHAREis a new feature in the ight planner that

allows you to share your created ight plans with

the rest of the REX community. Selecng SHARE

opens up the dialog box as seen ingure 37.

Within this screen are several elds required

in order to share your ight plan with the REX

community. If you have already entered a PROFILE

NAMEin the CONFIGURATION MANAGER, then

this eld is automacally lled in for you.

gure 36


FLIGHT CENTER

gure 37


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The other elds that need to be selected or lled

in are: FLIGHT TYPE, AIRLINE NAME, AIRPORT

PARKINGand DEPARTURE TIME (local). When all

elds are completed, selecng CANCELwill return

you back to the FLIGHT PLAN DETAILSarea, while

selecng SHAREwill upload your plan to the REX

data servers for immediate use by all other REX

customers within the community.

The waypoint IDcolumn of the FLIGHT PLAN

WAYPOINTSarea is used to add & delete

waypoints. Selecng on ANY IDlink will open the

WAYPOINT CONFIGURATIONscreen as seen in

gure 38. This is where you may add or delete

waypoints to the ight plan, or search waypoints.

Select the IDlink of the waypoint you wish todelete or simply search for it in the given SEARCH

eld, then click DELETEto remove that waypoint

from the current plan. To add a waypoint, select

or search the desired waypoint, then click ADD

WAYPOINT. The ight plan will now be updated.


FLIGHT CENTER

gure 38

gure 37


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There are 6 buons along the boom of the

FLIGHT PLAN DETAILSscreen, as seen ingure

39,which allow REX Essenal to perform mulple

tasks aer your desired ight plan is ready.

BACKnavigates you back to the previous screen.

RELOAD WXreloads the most current weather.

This is handy if you have taken me in preparing

your ight plan and you would like to make sure

you are presented with the latest weather data for

your ight plan.

WX TEXTURES is used to analyze weather

condions and choose a set of textures that

match. Select WX TEXTURES and REX Essenal will

begin installing textures into ight simulator.

WX AVOIDANCEis a real-me weather view with

the ight plan overlaid upon the map. This is

known as the Weather Avoidance System (WASys)

and is described in more detail later in this manual.

SAVEdisplays a dialogue box which allows the

current ight plan to be saved in .pln format. These

ight plans can be imported into FSX/P3D.

FLY NOWstarts the process of opening ight

simulator(if enabled in the CONFIGURATION

menu)and the weather engine(if enabled in the

CONFIGURATIONmenu).


FLIGHT CENTER

gure 39

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It is very important that FSX or Prepar3D is NOT

running before selecng the WX TEXTURES process.!


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FLIGHT CENTER

gure 40

The COMMUNITY FLIGHT PLANSarea, as seen in

gure 40, contains all of the community shared

ight plans uploaded by fellow REX Essenal users.

Looking at this screen more carefully, you will

noce an IMPORTbuon as well as the main area

within the center of the screen, containing specic

informaon for each shared ight.

IMPORTallows you to import an FSX/P3D

compable ight plan into REX Essenal for further

planning and route capabilies. IMPORTallows

you to navigate and select the ight plan you

would like to load into REX Essenal.

The main area of the COMMUNITY FLIGHT

PLANS screen consists of 6 columns; FLIGHT ID,

AIRLINE, DEPARTURE TIME,DEPARTURE,ARRIVAL

andAUTHOR.

To import a community shared ight plan, select

the FLIGHT IDtext link and the ight plan will

download and load into REX. This process might

take a moment, depending on the complexity of

the ight plan selected.

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WEATHER

gure 41

Selecng the WEATHERtab on the main navigaon

area displays the CONFIGURE WEATHER LOAD

PROCEDUREmenu as shown ingure 41. In order

to access the WEATHERpage, the type of weather

you desire must be selected.

The rst type of weather data is real-weather,

familiar to most ight simulator users as real-

world/real-me weather. This is a real-me

download of all the metars and weather data

available over the enre globe from the NOAA

servers as well as TAFs and PIREPS submied by

pilots all over the world. If you selected ENABLE

VATSIM WEATHER in the CONFIGURATION

MANAGERpage, then the data thats available will

be retrieved from the VATSIM network servers.

The real-weather opon is used by selecng Use

Real-Weather Data and then selecng OK. CANCEL

returns to the previous screen.

REALTIME WEATHER


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WEATHER

gure 42

To retrieve weather, type in an ICAO code for the

airport, or search for an airport using the SEARCH

buon, then selecng SUBMIT.

There are 7 buons along the boom of this screen.

RELOAD WXforces a re-download of the weather

data. The new SEARCH WEATHERfeature allows

you to search for specic weather condions, such

as VFR, IFR, RAIN, SNOW and THUNDERSTORMS.

VIEW WEATHER, as seen ingure 43,allows you

to view weather in dierent parts of the world by

selecng on the headers for the various connents

along the top of the map. WX TEXTURESallows

REX to choose the best textures to represent the

weather. WX AVOIDANCEopens up the weather

avoidance system. FLIGHT PLANdisplays the FLIGHT

PLANNER. FLY NOWstarts FSX/P3D.

Aer typing in an airport, in this case above,

Los Angeles (KLAX), and selecng SUBMIT, the

weather situaon in Los Angeles is displayed on

the screen as shown ingure 42. Noce that the

empty data elds are now populated with weather

data including the metar data, winds alo, TAF

forecasts, and PIREP reports. Metar winds are

referenced to true north, not magnec north.

The funcons of the 7 buons along the boom

of the screen have already been described, but

the WX AVOIDANCEbuon deserves a bit more

discussion. Selecng WX AVOIDANCEdisplays the

screen as shown ingure 44. This is the internal

REX WXscreen and is very similar in funcon to

the in-ight REX WXscreen that is displayed when

FLY NOW is selected.

REALTIME WEATHER (connued)


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WEATHER

gure 43



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WEATHER

gure 44

The REX WXscreen is explained in more detail later in this manual in the FLY NOW secon. Clicking the

ON/OFFbuon on the REX WXscreen takes you back to the main WEATHERsecon. Aer viewing the

REX WXwindow, return back to the WEATHERmenu and select FLY NOW to start FSX/P3D and the REX

Essenal weather engine.



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WEATHER

gure 45

A very interesng feature of REX Essenal is the

RANDOM WEATHER area. This feature allows the

program to generate a large number of random

weather scenarios for any locaon on the globe

you desire. As it is way outside the scope of this

product for this weather to be based on real-world

actual seasonal trends specic for each place on

earth, it allows for some interesng possibilies.

Ever wanted to y in a snow storm in Hawaii? You

can with this feature. Addionally, REX can choose

textures that will best represent the weather and

install them into ight simulator for you. This

menu is accessed by placing a bullet in USE REX

RANDOM WEATHER THEMESand selecng OK.

Selecng CANCELreturns to the previous screen.

This screen is characterized by two halves; the le

side which contains the steps needed to create

random weather and the right side, which contains

the map showing the generated weather as well as

the WX TEXTURES, WX AVOIDANCE, FLIGHT PLAN,

andFLY NOWbuons.

Type in the ICAO code of the airport or use

SEARCH. Select the season desired from the

SEASONselector and by selecng the severity of

weather by the SEVERITYselector. The next step is

to generate the weather by selecng GENERATE.

Figures 46 & 47 show two examples with KLAX as

the AIRPORT and WINTER asthe season.

WX TEXTURESallows the program to install

textures into ight simulator that best represents

the chosen weather condions. WX AVOIDANCE

will open the REX WX screen as described earlier.

The FLIGHT PLANand FLY NOW buons starts the

ight as described previously.

RANDOM WEATHER


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WEATHER

gure 46

RANDOM WEATHER(connued)


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WEATHER

gure 47

RANDOM WEATHER(connued)


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WEATHER

RANDOM WEATHER(connued)IMPORTANT NOTE:

You may sll use the random weather feature without an internet connecon, however you will

not receive the REX WXscreen shown ingure 47, instead you will receive the screen as shown in

gure 48. You are sll able to view the weather paerns on the REX WXscreen but will not be able

to view the mapping, as the mapping system requires an internet connecon. This does not aect

how REX Essenal will generate and export weather into FSX/P3D.

!

gure 48


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WEATHER

gure 49

From the CONFIGURE WEATHER LOAD PROCEDUREmenu shown ingure 49, place a bullet in USE

ARCHIVED WEATHER DATA, then choose an archived weather le from the drop-down list. The list will

contain all the weather les that are available. Previously downloaded real-me weather can be used.

Once an acceptable data le is selected, select OKto use the weather.

ARCHIVED WEATHER


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FLY NOW

gure 50

Aer all the ight planning, downloading ofweather, analyzing of weather maps, navigaon

logs and ight plans along with the loading of

textures, its me to get ying! The interface

between you and actually starng a ight is the FLY

NOW buon.

AnymeFLY NOWis selected, whether it be

from the MAINmenu, or from one of the other

submenus, REX Essenal is given the instrucon

to start its protocol. Most users are going to check

the Enable REX Weather Engine, Enable auto-start

the REX weather engine and Enable auto launch

the ight simulator opons.

Flight simulator will immediately start. A few

seconds later the REX Essenal weather engine

(REX WX) will start as evidenced by the appearance

of the REX WX screen, and the REX Essenal main

program will minimize to the taskbar as seen in

gure 50.

The REX WX is one of the most important andextensively used interfaces within the enre REX

Essenal program. This system allows you to follow

the weather along the ight path in real-me as

well as allowing you to directly interface with the

weather engine.

Figure 50shows the weather engine waing to

connect to ight simulator. Note that there are 4

buons along the boom, 2 zoom buons with a +

and - label and a LOAD WEATHERbuon.

LOAD WEATHER allows you to force the weather

engine to download and inject weather manually.

OFF/ONshuts o the weather engine and closes

the REX WX. The REX WX screen is moveable,

however it cannot be re-sized.

Once ight simulator has loaded a ight, the

weather engine will take a few moments processing

and injecng weather, aer which, the REX WXmap

will appear on the screen, as seen ingure 51.


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WEATHER ENGINE REX WX

gure 51

REX ESSENTIAL WX BUTTON DESCRIPTION

RadarDisplays precipitaon intensity, NOT cloud cover. Green represents light precipitaon,

Yellow represents moderate, Red represents heavy or severe.

StormDisplays areas where possible thunderstorms are located with electrical discharges.

Extremely helpful especially if a storm is not precipitang.

TurbulenceDisplays areas of potenal cloud turbulence. Green represents light choppy or light

turbulence, Yellow represents moderate, Red represents heavy to severe turbulence.

IcingDisplays areas of potenal icing or hail as in the case of thunderstorms. Dark blue is

light icing, Light Blue moderate icing, Yellow represents severe icing or Hail.

Zoom +/- Allow user to zoom in or out from current locaon.

ON/OFF Ends the weather engine process and reloads the main REX Essenal interface.

Once the weather engine is acve, you will noce a series of green bars appear on-screen within

ight simulator, indicang the status of the weather engine. Above the 4 boom buons are interface

displays that describe what each buons funcon is. To change the data displayed, click on the outside

blue buon adjacent to the data that you would like to view. Noce that the on-screen buon toggles

between ON and OFF as each subsequent outer buon is selected, and the data on the screen changes

to reect the choice. The map may also be zoomed in and out via the + and - buons.

BELOW IS A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EACH FUNCTION:


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WEATHER ENGINE REX WX

gure 52

IMPORTANT NOTE:

More opons will appear simply byright-selecng on the frame of the REX

WX weather gauge, as seen ingure

52. This allows you to set important

parameters, which are summarized on

the following table.!

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION

Load WeatherForces weather to manually be injected into FSX/P3D. This will override any minimum

altude level set within the CONFIGURATION MANAGER.

Search Metar Allows you to search for metar data from an ICAO within the weather database.

OpacityChanges the REX WX gauge visibility to allow you to view behind the gauge while

in-game and in windowed mode.

WX Download When this opon is checked ON, it allows REX to connue to download the latest metarand weather data in the background. When it is UNCHECKED, it turns o this process.

WX InterpolaonWhen this opon is checked ON, it allows REX to interpolate weather staon data from

the weather data in the background. When it is UNCHECKED, it turns o this process.

WX Refresh Rate Allows you to change the weather refresh rate while in-game.

WX Refresh Region Allows you to change the size of the weather ight region while in-game.

WX Refresh Balance

Allows you to set the weather interjecon speed. Using longer periods of me between

interjects reduces frame hits, but prolongs the interjects process. Likewise, decreasing

the interjects me increases frame hits, but reduces prolong interjecon periods.

Top MostSets weather gauge as top most screen. ONLY works when ight simulator is in

windowed mode.

Minimize Minimizes weather gauge to task bar.

Close Closes the REX weather engine and re-opens the main REX interface.


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