During a flight with ASky offline mode I noticed that the ASky main window metar reported rain at the airport I was located, while in the wx-export.met and in the other .met files rain was not reported. Now, since FSFlightmax reads the wx-export.met file, there were no returns in it, even if outside it was raining.This did not change even after half an hour.Any ides?Thanks,JamesLIRF

James,Not real sure about this, but I'll try. If you switch to online mode and go to an airport with rain does it show up on FltMax? If not then something is not set up quite right in FltMax. I use FltMax also and I hope I could get you set up. If yes, then we might have to wait for Damian or another user to come along.Hope this helps,Jim

Hi James,First, I would check the time/date stamp of the METAR being shown in ActiveSky's interface window, and compare it to the time/date stamp of the METAR's being exported to FlightMax. Regrettably, even with the latest update, I have encountered a few times when the exported METARs were from a different time than the METARs being shown in ActiveSky, and displayed in FS. I may be mistaken, but it seems as though the METARs being exported to FlightMax are always using the VATSIM wx, regardless of whether VATSIM Metars are checked or not. Needless to say, this can result in differing weather reports, especially if you're not using VATSIM weather...~ Andy SutterMA825/KSFO (Meridian VA)kZAU ARTCC

Hi James,wxRE gets its data for FSFlightMax from the NOAA cycle download files. It uses a combination of the current and past hour cycle METAR files (it will use a previous hour to that if the -1 is erroneous or incomplete). You end up getting the past 2 available hours of METAR reports. The latest report takes precidence. Occasionally this will vary from the latest METAR report. METAR data is slightly more current at times and if the rain just started the cycle files may be several minutes behind. This is the only way to handle providing worldwide data to fsflightmax without needing a private weather server. Due to the way this works, it is of utmost importance to have a correct UTC conversion value set, so that the correct and latest cycle files are downloaded. If/when you encounter the metar/cycle inconsistencies, you can get around the issue by using offline mode with the latest download (and manually updating every hour or so). This insures the cycle files are always used for both METAR and exported data.To avoid this and other such cycle limitations, I am working on a private weather server solution - one that is affordable for me to provide (and keep wxRE's price down). So far not much luck but I'm confident a good solution will be found soon enough...-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