Overcast Layer not Showing Up

[Guest]

I am at the location of the following metar for plenty of time for the WxRE weather to build in, yet the overcast layer at 1500 feet never shows up. I fly right past the broken layer but never encounter an overcast at 1500.KBHB 150355Z AUTO 01010G15KT 10SM BKN008 OVC015 02/01 A2893Is this possibly because the layer isn't thick enough? My option is set at 200 feet for minimum cloud thickness. By the way how do you know what the "thickness" of a cloud layer is supposed to be? The manual says something about "the thickness in a metar report", but metars don't give any thickness info.Any help much appreciated.

[Damian Clark 1,273]

Hello,Can I get a screenshot of the main and status screens when/if this happens again? It may be normal (due to conflic with another layer prior), I will have to check the variables. Did you try a REFRESH? Did you CLEAR your FS weather before wxRE started generating it? Thanks..-Damian[table border=0" cellspacing="30" cellpadding="0][tr][td align = "left"]Damian ClarkHiFi Simulation SoftwareDeveloper of ActiveSkyThe next-generation weather environment simulation for FS2002!http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky[/td][td]http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg][/td][/tr][/table://http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/ima...][/tr][/table

[Guest]

Okay Damian, here are the WxRE screens. This time I didn't get the broken or the overcast layer. I waited for more than 5 minutes. All my settings are per the manual.

[Damian Clark 1,273]

Hi,This appears to also be related to an FSUIPC communications issue a few users have reported.Please try resetting FSUIPC to defaults using its button, then set via the wxRE docs, then reboot, and this should clear (it did for some). If you continue to have trouble please email me at support@hifisim.com and I will investigate further... I am also working on trying to solve this communications issue for good somehow without any need for the user to worry about anything (again it only affected 4 users so far but still...). Thanks!-Damian[table border=0" cellspacing="30" cellpadding="0][tr][td align = "left"]Damian ClarkHiFi Simulation SoftwareDeveloper of ActiveSkyThe next-generation weather environment simulation for FS2002!http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky[/td][td]http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg][/td][/tr][/table://http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/ima...][/tr][/table

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply. While I was waiting for your reply I uninstalled WxRE and then reinstalled it. I also replaced the FSUIPC settings file with the one you supplied with WxRE.Everything worked beautifully. I got both layers nicely. Do you think I could have accomplished the same thing by resetting FSUIPC to default settings and then manually entering yours?Thanks again.

[Guest]

> I am also working on trying to solve > this communications issue for good somehow without any need > for the user to worry about anything (again it only affected > 4 users so far but still...). Thanks! Count me as user number 5. I have been having this issue on and off, too. I suspected that it might be a communication issue, because ActiveSky would report an overcast layer in both its main window and within the sim (via the scrolling text), yet ATIS would report clear below 12,000ft and no layer ever appeared.Resetting FSUIPC seemed to work for me two days ago, but today the problem reappeared.The next time I encounter this, I will post a screen shot to this thread.Regards,Peter

[JimBob 0]

I'm #6, however I can usually resolve the problem by doing another "clear all weather" and things usually display properly almost immediately. There have been several occasions however when nothing but a restart worked !JimBob