This is one thing that always confused me with VATSIM, FS2004 allows you to set whatever weather you want and whatever time of day you want. But VATSIM is supposed to be simulating the real world environment. Now how does this work if you have say 2 different players, one player is flying set at 9:30pm and his weather is snowing, but then the other player is set at flying at 1:00pm and he has his weather set to a hot summer day. How does this work together?Does the weather and time of day have to be the same for the VATSIM network to work and for controllers to appropriatly control all aircraft?

All users of VATSIM should be sharing the same weather information, which is supplied by the VATSIM servers. The Squawkbox program delivers the appropriate weather information to FS, via FSUIPC, and this overrides the normal FS weather. Therefore all aircraft at any one location on VATSIM should experience the same weather.Time of day doesn't really matter unless you're flying VFR.Bruce.