SB Server Weather Question

[Guest]

Got a question I hope can be answered. I've noticed that while flying around using SB and FS2002 that the weather is never actually IFR. The ceilings are usually no less than 4000 and visibility always greater than 5-6 miles. Is there any way to shoot an ILS to minimums using the SB weather. As I understand it, this weather is generated (or stored) on specific weather servers that are accessed and download the weather into MSFS. I love using SB, but wish that realtime weather was used. I am flying around in my virtual world with ceilings of 7000 Scattered and 15 miles visiblity, while outside the weather is 200 ceilings with 1/4 visibility. Any suggestions would be great. Michael McCulloughCP-ASMEL-IAhttp://pages.prodigy.net/mccullough

[Mats_J]

The weather used on VATSIM and collected by SB is derived from actual METARs. Those could be quite old though as the servers don't seem to update at times. Today I had weather from VATSIM in sweden from 20th January, 1420Z. But it is usually quite acurate.If you want to have a more realistic weather experience I can highly recommend Active Sky wxRE. It brings a whole new dimension to real weather. It even incorporates wake turbulence. And on top of everything it is compatible with VATSIM online flying. The support is also really good! It's well worth

[Guest]

I have ActiveSky and I love it. I take it I can use it with SB, but how do I keep SB from downloading the VATSIM weather?Michael McCulloughCP-ASMEL-IAhttp://pages.prodigy.net/mccullough

[Guest]

MichaelBe sure to check "Ignore real weather" in SquawkBox Options and let ActiveSky take care of it!Hope it helps