December 21, 200322 yr I keep thinking I will hear that warning coming from the PMDG 737 in my flights using AS2004.I tried a flight today from KPIT to KIAH but had to make an emergency landing in KLIT because the we ran out of air sick bags. :-)I had easily over 3 dozen incidents of winds aloft updates that caused a violent nose shift, altitude loss/gain of over 200-300 feet or airspeed increase/drop of over 20 knots. It seemed the engines were almost constantly at full power because the FMC was trying to compensate for a change due to a wind update. It would just get the last one sorted out before it had to go full throttle again from another update. Good thing I had sufficient reserves as the fuel milage really sucked.Passing the LIT VOR, I had the wind go 320 from 340 to 20 in one update while going from 35 to 90+ knots. Of course this caused a violent nose swing, an altitude drop of at least 500 feet and an overspeed warning (first time I've heard that). That was followed by another update a few minutes later where the wind swung back around to 320@35 knots again.I tried to enable wind smoothing in FSUIPC but it did no good. Still had violent swings in degrees and velocities with each update. Got very frustrating after a while and made the flight less than enjoyable.This is the first flight that I have experienced such drastic problems with the winds aloft updates. I have done 2 other flights with minimal problems. Don't know if it makes a difference but both during both of those other flights I was primarily flying into a head wind (KCID to KMSP and KSTL to KPHX). The KPIT to KIAH flight had cross winds for almost the entire flight.I have done the same procedure on each flight as far as generating a flight plan and loading it, as per the manual.I am using FSUIPC 3.135.On a good note, I have figured out how to minimize the disappearing clouds and instant updates. I have only experienced maybe a half dozen of these and most were before I disabled GLOB writes (seems to work MUCH better without that).I also really enjoyed the view during that last KPIT to KIAH flight. Flying into a sunset with at multiple cloud layers. Really beautiful.I just wish this wind issue could be resolved or a procedural work-around discovered (something I could do or a setting in AS2004 or FSUIPC).Keith
December 21, 200322 yr Keith,Per his status post, Damian is aware of this and is working on a better solution.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support
December 21, 200322 yr Thanks, Jim.Not trying to be negative. Thought this information might be helpful in fixing a possible problem.In fact, besides the winds aloft issue at high altitudes, I really have nothing else to complain about with AS2004. Great product and great support, as witnessed by Damian's responsiveness.Glad to see Damian has a handle on this. I was confident he would get a fix out if there was something he could do and his hands weren't tied by FS9.Keith
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