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OK, I may try and take this idea back to the active sky team. I appreciate your help. :)

very very old http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=193436 I remember walking away from that conversation a little confused. I believe they thought I wanted the vis to drop each time you entered an actual cloud. I really just wanted it to happen within the overcast boundaries regardless of visual clouds. I'll take a look at ASA, really not sure why I havent to this point. I may even resurrect this old topic :) Thanks again. If you have any suggestions as to were i could start making a little utility for myself I would appreciate it. Keep in mind, I am a COMPLETE noob when it comes to programming, I'd need a dummy book.

Thankyou very much for your response. I have activesky 6.5 and as far as I understand the overcast enhancement helps more to patch the holes in the fs9 default overcast by doubling the layers. However its been my experience that the bases are never really accurate. If a station is reporting 300ft overcast i will see the ground and airport at altitudes much higher. For me there has been no such thing as breaking out at 300ft in FS9. The option I suggest would only be to assist Activesky, I still would like to get that "in the soup" type of feeling. It is encouraging though to know that an external program could be possible. I could be still be flying fs9 6 years from now, so in that time I may be able to learn more about these types of programs maybe even a gauge. Thanks again for your response and for FSUIPC as I've been using it since fs2002. John

Mr. Dowson Would it be possible for an external program or a module like FSUIPC to force FS to reduce visibility to 0 whenever the user aircraft is within an overcast cloud layer? The module would have to monitor the weather at the user aircraft (overcast layer altitudes) and compare it to the users altitude. If an overcast layer exists say between 1000ft and 3000ft could fsuipc or some other module be made to reduce vis to 0 while the aircraft is between those altitude and revert back to the default upon exiting. I use FS9 and its overcast has always had problems. I know FSUIPC knows when the user is in an area that has an overcast layer, I dont know if it can read the bases and tops. I think an option like this would give a more realistic feel for flying in an ovc layer. Since I am not a programmer I wouldnt know how to achieve this so I look to someone who knows much more about the inner workings of FS. Thankyou for listening John