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Thanks for the quick response Pete. I have pretty much given up trying to find MY happy zone with ActiveSky2004 and FUSPIC. I have gone back to Default d/l weather, setting the filters the way I want through FSUIPC and everything seems to be ok. I think things are made way too difficult with weather/weather addons. You have provided a interface that smoothes the incoming information, although not perfect, its close, so I'am going to leave things as they are for now, and perhaps the other guys will get things sorted out and I will give that a try again. Thanks again for your time....Glen. Just to add, maybe you can help with a cloud/visibility problem that I find very irritating. Is there any way to stop the clouds from popping in and out of view, or the drastic changes in cloud cover. Theres times when you will be approaching a cloud bank and it seems you turn your head for a second, look back and its gone. I've had this with FSMETEO, ActiveSky and Default weather. As far as I can see/tell I have all the settings correct in FSUIPC with regards to smoothing things out but maybe I'am missing something. With my usual settings I find problems to be the least when I use Default d/l weather. Thanks

Quick question, long post. Registered FSUIPC 3.14, FS9, ActiveSky with latest beta, MyWorld2004, UT, Voice Buddy, just to give some background. As you may or may not be aware, many users are having a problem getting or having their local/on route weather displayed properly with similar addon's as I've purchased and listed above. Some of these depend on FSUIPC to interact with FS9, registered or un-registered. The ActiveSky forum is presently full of people having an awful time getting things to work correctly. The publishers of ActiveSky have outlined exactly how the settings need to be between FSUIPC and ActiveSky for things to work as designed. Myself not having much luck with this combo is about to give up, but now for the question. When I go into FSUIPC and set things the way the ActiveSky guys suggest, go back to the game, and then go back into FSUIPC the settings I had changed are all back the way they were before the changes. How am I/we every going to get things to work if the changes we make within a program are not kept, we're not. This is not a random occurance, I have tested this till I'am blue in the face and getting tired of it. I've spent a considerable amount of money on these addons and by the looks/amount of problems people are having in the ActiveSky forum, whatever is being done at either end yours/theirs to correct these problems is not working. This post is not to lay blame at either end, I would like nothing more than to fly from here to there with real world weather but it dosen't work. And please don't tell me the program only tells FS9 what its being served from a weather program, I'am sure thats the way it was designed, but between THESE two, things are not as they should be ( I also used FSMETEO with FS2002 and alot of the same problems existed). I can see the Metars that ActiveSky is getting/sending, and what I see on screen is quite often different ( wind, clouds, precip). If the settings in FSUIPC are not staying as set, how can these two programs serve each other. If its a combination of the settings from both , then they need to be sorted out between the makers of FSUIPC and ActiveSky. Me as the consumer have no control over the end result (well maybe I do, don't buy anything and use default weather, ya right), I'am not a programmer, and I rely on you/them as the developers to provide me with a product that works, I PAID FOR IT, at both ends. Any suggestions, please feel free to throw them my/our way, I'am at a loss to make these work together. p.s What is FSUIPC'S role as far as weather serving. Why do both programs have so many of the same settings, as did FSMETEO when I used it?? Was FSUIPC at one time going to get weather and serve to the simulator? Why does FSUIPC even have these options (Weather) if its not getting the weather itself, perhaps take them out, they seem to confuse alot of people, not just users, but it looks like weather designers as well? Can't we just have FSUIPC serve the weather to FS9 from an external source, and do nothing else (weather wise, I understand and use it's other values), or have FSUIPC get the weather itself and serve FS9 on its own?? If this is one of the program options, just serving the weather, no adjustments, (un-ticking weather settings), why dosen't it work? The unfortunate thing is, if I want to use the weather program in a non-registered FSUIPC state (meaning I didn't pay for FSUIPC to work with ActiveSky, which I could have), then other things I may have purchased that need FSUIPC registered will not work. This is correct?? Thanks for you time Pete...Glen