Okay folks, I have nailed down the problem, and a workaround solution...Problem: the METARs being exported to FlightMax are outdated, as has been confirmed by others in this forum and the FlightMax forum.After fiddling with my UTC conversion, and every other imaginable setting, I found that the date and time of the exported METAR information coincided with my last Offline weather download's time. For some reason, ActiveSky (even when set to Online/Live mode) is using the most recent offline file's time/date to determine the time/date for the exported METAR information.A simple workaround is to simply download an offline file every hour on the hour (so it is always kept at the current time). Also, make sure the current offline file is selected (in the ActiveSky Options menu). The data exported to FlightMax is still current (based on current METAR), at least I don't believe it is taken from the offline file, but for some reason it is still necessary that the current offline file be selected. Export Metars for FSFlightMax should also be checked in the options menu...Aside from the offline file settings in the ActiveSky Options menu, FSFlightMax v1.4 should be set up as usual (FSFlightMax/Alternate Weather/ActiveSky should be checked, and it shouldn't be set to use any offline .MET files).I hope the ActiveSky folks (Daimien) can take care of this glitch with an update. I still prefer ActiveSky over "that other weather program," but this is a bit of an unnecessary nuisance IMO...Andy SutterMA825/KSFOkZAU ARTCC, STU+

Still doesn't work for me.

After more tweaking I got it to work.