MikeAdamo

Hi Pete, There is a nagging bug with FS9 where the clouds in areas high above sea level (i.e. Denver, Calgary) form from the ground up and I was wondering if there are any settings within FSUIPC which could alieviate this issue? Interestingly enough, when weather is first loaded in the sim (using the stock weather engine) the clouds appear fine and at proper altitude but as time goes by, the begin forming from the ground and I have to re-download the weather to get them at proper altitude. Any thoughts/suggestions? Thanks. MIke

Pete, Thanks for clearing that up! I've read and re-read things so often these days it all started to look and sound the same :-) I guess this topic will be a moot point once weather utilities from FS2002 are updated to FS2004 specs. Thanks again! Mike

Hi Pete, I recently purchased/registered FSUIPC 3 in the hopes that I would be able to have some control over the visibility settings FS interprets from the METAR data it recieves and am disappointed that I cannot do this anymore. I read another post where you stated "The main reason for its introduction on FS2000 was to help with frame rates -- the lower the visibility nearer the ground, the better the frame rates despite the increasing complexity of ground imaging. I don't think this is a consideration in FS2004." I'm sorry to say but, like in FS2002, the lower the visibility nearer the ground, the better performance we see in FS2004. I've made several flights with varying degrees of visibility and the flights that had the smoothest appearance were the ones where visibility was less than 30nm. Was the decision not to include this function in FS2004 due to the programming involved or on feed-back from beta testers? Geof A made an excellent point in a post on the Avsim forum http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=3019&page= in regards to how FS interprets METAR visibility data and I was wondering if you noticed the same and what your opinion is? Thanks for your input!! Mike