Turbulence in FS9

[BK]

Hi Pete,

I recently registered for FSUIPC.Great product indeed. Question though: How come I don't get turbulence in FS9 in the same form it appeared in FS2002? I have the "enable random turbulence" checked but nothing happens when you fly thru clouds. Anything I missed or did wrong?

Thanks

BK 8)

[Pete Dowson]

How come I don't get turbulence in FS9 in the same form it appeared in FS2002? I have the "enable random turbulence" checked but nothing happens when you fly thru clouds. Anything I missed or did wrong?

First there's cloud turbulence AND wind turbulence, and the random options are separate.

Second, as in previous versions of FS, the FSUIPC options only operate on Global weather or weather injected by external programs. I don't know where you are getting your weather from, but most sources of FS weather, other than external programs, will give you localised weather, not global. Even if you set it globally, it gradually becomes localised (see notes on this in the "Important" announcement above). This localisation happens even faster if you have dynamic changes enabled, which it probably is by default.

Third, if you are only using FS2004 sources of weather, FSUIPC doesn't touch them now UNLESS you enable this by checking that option on the "Technical" page. This is because otherwise selected local or themed weather always reverts to "user defined" if FSUIPC changes anything.

Really, most of the weather options provided by FSUIPC are for use with external weather programs, where they all work well. The exceptions are the three visibility options marked ***, which are implemented rather differently and apply to all weathers.

Regards,

Pete