I saw there was weather up in the American Midwest stretching across Illinois so launched a trusty T28 at Oshkosh to head out into it. I have to run with preview to get the performance I need with graphics turned up and REX feeding me weather, but it looks so amazing. It was spotty rain in Oshkosh and I followed a Cessna out to the active. (The T28 has some nice canopy rain effects and you also get the patter sound.) Took off and flew south-southwest towards Madison at 4000 feet or so. It was hard to spot Madison at a distance but eventually the airport lit up and I did a few circles around the city and the twin lakes before heading southeast towards Chicago. As the sun went down the head and tail lights on the cars down below started lighting up as well as city lights. Even had occasional distant lightning. Flew through some approaches at other airports with AI lining up in their respective traffic patterns and nice halos around their lights in the clouds and by the time I got to Lake Michigan the full moon was rising. Headed south along the shore and went right by a Cessna flying somewhere or other and by the time I could see O'Hare the rain had stopped and the city was lit up with lights and cars on the roads. Buzzed O'Hare and then out again to the city buildings to see them all at night, and over to Midway. Got clearance on 13L for a full stop and picked up rain again as I was lining up. Landed and exited onto a taxiway with a heavy on final behind me. Got orders to hold position and he taxied right in front of me after he exited. Made my way over to parking and shut down over in a cluster of Cessnas, Maules, and such.
With the graphics turned up an flying at dusk into evening with weather, it's really an experience. I wish I could run the beta for this as radio coms would be easier, but it's not bad on the regular monitor and tipping up the DK2 as needed. I did start getting stutter over Chicago with all the autogen but it wasn't bad. It was a really cool flight. One of the most fun in a while. Highly recommend REX for the cloud, sky, and weather dynamics. Find some real world weather and go fly into it.