Hi,Great product, along with 767PIC the best purchase i've made for FS.One question though, i've been using it for quite a while now and what is really starting to bother me are the auto metar stations(AWS).I have wxre set to update every 15 minutes and 'update metar on new station' is not on. But a lot of times i find mysef near an auto metar station when activesky gets it's new metar. And auto metar stations just report a few basic variables and it's not by far as complete/detailed as the normal metar from for example large airports. So me weather goes from a good representation of the real situation to something completely different because of all the variables missing from the auto metar stationNow i was wondering could a feature be added so that active sky can be set to ignore the auto metar stations and either stick with the last normal metar settings or find the nearest normal metar and use that.Keep up the good work,Cheers.

I see why you are requesting this feature, but in general, you would be severely limiting your weather input. Here's why...1> ASOS and AWOS stations are rapidly replacing manual observations all over the world. If you eliminate every METAR that has AUTO, you are going to soon find you have the same weather over a very large territory, especially in rural areas.2> Your concern regards automated reports that don't match normal reports. When you say normal, I assume you mean full standard reports. Here is something to consider. An ASOS station reports the full standard metar report, albeit the cloud cover and wind is measured over a longer average period than a manual observation. Therefore, by cutting out any report that has AUTO, you would be missing the ASOS stations that give the same information as the normal stations. There are several different types of AWOS stations, some of which are very comparable to ASOS stations.I think a better solution is to edit the file that contains the reporting stations and eliminate the stations you feel don't meet your expectations.You can find a list of stations in the United States by going to http://www1.faa.gov/asos/map/map.htm. Within each state is a list of stations and the type of AWOS equipment used. I think you'll be surprised at how many airports are using AWOS and ASOS equipment.To see the reporting capabilities of the AWOS types and determine which don't meet your minimum requirements, go to the FAA's Automated Weather Sensor site at http://www1.faa.gov/asos/index.htm.Bruce

Hi,Thanks for all that info on the new types of auto stations.(And yes, with normal I mean full standard.)For the US and a lot of other regions I agree that auto metar stations are better left on but I mainly 'fly' europe and basically there are no vast rural areas left here. That's why if something like 'no metar from auto stations' is implemented it should be an option. Where ever one is in Europe there's always a major airport with normal metar nearby.A bigger problem is there are even more auto stations nearby.For example, when I fly from EHAM and head east I will first get the auto from soesterberg(EHSB) and then the auto from (EHDL).Now my own house is between EHSB and EHDL so I know what the weather is like and usually it's about the same as EHAM. So I take off from EHAM with nicely detailed weather...a few cloud layers...get in the vicinity of EHSB or EHDL and due to the update from the auto station I loose all the cloud layers, cross border into Germany and get a 'normal metar' and there are my layers again.Although activesky does the transistion smoothly i find myself going from detailed weather to loosing most detail...back to detailed...and so on.I really would prefer having the same weather across a somewhat larger area, but as i said i think 'no metar from AWS' in areas as populated as europe would hardly make a difference.Cheers.