Live
Real-world weather happening right now, refreshed continuously around your aircraft from NOAA and Open-Meteo.
SECTOR 000° · 250 NM AREA SCAN · OWNSHIP ↑ · DATA: NOAA · OPEN-METEO
Real weather,
modeled & injected.
A living, three-dimensional atmosphere, built from real observations and fed into MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 (beta) in real time. Smooth, continuous, zero pop-in. The modern alternative to our leading competitor.
MSFS 2024 · LIVE MSFS 2020 · BETA X-PLANE · SOON
- NOAA Aviation Weather
- Open-Meteo
- GFS 0.25°
- ERA5 archive
- METAR · TAF · GRIB2
SECTOR 270°CapabilitiesRANGE 180 NM
The atmosphere, in 3-D
Not a preset. A whole
Not a preset. A whole
vertical column.
StrataWx synthesizes a 50 × 50 micro-cell grid up to FL500. The profile reads temperature, the freezing level, winds and cloud bands at every altitude; the scope shows precipitation around you in real time, exactly what's being injected.
- Vertical temperature & wind profile
- Live precipitation radar scope
- Multi-model fusion with agreement scoring
Hazards, surfaced
Every hazard, called out
Every hazard, called out
before you reach it.
Ceiling, freezing level and convective risk up top; icing and turbulence bands plotted by altitude; live SIGMETs, AIRMETs and PIREPs within range. You see the flight picture the way a briefer would hand it to you.
- Icing & turbulence bands
- Freezing level & ceiling
- Convective risk
- SIGMET · AIRMET · PIREP
Winds & clouds
Layer by layer,
Layer by layer,
exactly as observed.
Cloud decks with real bases, tops, coverage and density. Winds aloft at every level from the surface to the flight levels. And the raw METAR it's all anchored to, decoded and injected.
- Up to 24 cloud layers
- Winds aloft, surface → FL400+
- Source METAR, decoded
The difference
The snap that defines other engines
The snap that defines other engines
simply isn't there.
Every channel (wind, pressure, temperature, cloud opacity) is diffed against the last frame and ramped over a configurable blend, with winds smoothed as vectors. No base swaps. No altimeter spikes. No cloud decks teleporting in front of you.
SECTOR 180°Three ways to flyRANGE 120 NM
Historical
Replay any past instant from the ERA5 archive, 1:1 with the clock. Last Tuesday's storm is one timestamp away.
Sandbox
Author exact conditions: overcast at 1,200 ft, 30 kt crosswind, moderate chop, then inject instantly.
SECTOR 090°From the real sky to your cockpitRANGE 060 NM
01
Aggregate
METAR, TAF and GRIB2 data fetched, parsed, cached and interpolated across a 250 NM radius.
02
Synthesize
Sparse observations become a dense 4-D field, advected with the flow around you.
03
Blend
Each frame diffed and ramped, winds smoothed as vectors, so motion stays continuous.
04
Inject
An in-sim panel writes the state into the simulator's active weather, every loop. You fly.
SECTOR 045°StrataWx vs Our Leading CompetitorRANGE 030 NM
Same kind of real-weather engine, a fairer deal. Here's how StrataWx stacks up against the incumbent for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
StrataWx
- $29.99 one-time, no subscription
- Free updates, forever
- New simulator? Upgrade fee only, never a rebuy
- Smooth, vector-blended transitions
- Historical replay of any instant
- Sandbox weather authoring
- Modern glass-cockpit interface
Our Leading Competitor
- €24.99 + VAT for MSFS
- Paid version upgrades
- Bought again for each new sim
- Transitions can be abrupt
- Limited historical
- No sandbox authoring
- Dated interface
Competitor figures reflect our reading of the leading MSFS 2024 real-weather engine's public store, around €24.99 + VAT, with other simulators sold separately. StrataWx is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft or any other vendor. Verify current pricing before purchase.
SECTOR 000°DestinationRANGE 000 NM · DEST
One-time · own it forever
$29.99 one-time
Windows · MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 (beta) · free updates forever. Already own one sim? Add the other for just an upgrade fee, never full price.
◇BUY STRATAWX · $29.99Instant download · all sales final
- Live, historical & sandbox modes
- Full 3-D turbulence, shear & mountain-wave model
- Hazards, advisories & radar
- Anti-pop blended injection
- Glass-cockpit desktop app + signed installer
NOTAMGood questionsFAQ
01Is StrataWx a good alternative to our leading competitor for MSFS 2024?
Yes. StrataWx is a full real-weather engine for MSFS 2024. It aggregates live NOAA and Open-Meteo data, synthesizes a three-dimensional atmosphere and injects it continuously with vector-blended, no-pop-in transitions. Compared with our leading competitor it adds historical replay of any past instant, sandbox weather authoring and a modern glass-cockpit interface, for a $29.99 one-time price with free updates forever.
02Does it work with MSFS 2020 or X-Plane?
StrataWx runs on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and MSFS 2020 is now available in beta. X-Plane support is coming. Updates to a simulator you already own are always free; adding the other simulator carries a small one-time upgrade fee, never full price.
03Is this really a one-time price?
Yes. $29.99 buys StrataWx for MSFS 2024 outright, with free updates forever. We only ever charge again if we bring StrataWx to a totally different simulator, and even then it's a small upgrade fee, never a full repurchase.
04How does injection actually work?
A desktop engine aggregates and synthesizes the weather, then a lightweight in-sim toolbar panel applies it to the simulator's active weather every loop, with smoothing tuned to eliminate visible pops.
05Will it affect my frame rate?
The heavy lifting (data fetching and 3-D synthesis) runs in the desktop app, not the sim. The in-sim panel only applies small per-loop deltas, so the performance impact is minimal.
06Windows only?
The desktop app is Windows x64 today, shipping as a signed installer. Broader platform support follows the sim integrations.
07What's the refund policy?
All sales are final. Like most digital software, StrataWx is non-refundable once purchased. If you hit a problem, email us. We'd much rather help you get it working than leave you stuck.