Well, another great flight in, but one issue came up, and I'm wondering if it is my technique? I did a flight from Sudbury (CYSB) to Montreal (CYUL) today using online/real weather. Taking off and enroute I got pretty much exactly what I had expected, based on the report from AS2. Now when I did my plan, I planned direct YYB, then direct CYUL. YUL was listed as 800 & 1 in snow (lucky buggers :-hah) and winds at 23017G22, so what I did was "radar vector myself" out to the east for the ILS to 24L. No sweat, except that just north of the city (just south of Mirabel), the skies suddenly went totally clear. YMX is only about 30 miles north, and this is a pretty big system we were under, so that surprised me. I turned towards the ILS at about 25nm east of the airport and was descending down to 3000 wondering where my clouds and whatnot were. It was clear all the way to YUL with no clouds on the horizon. Quite suddenly as I got to within 15 miles of the airport, the clouds were there and I was in it solid, with it snowing pretty good. Then, at about 7 miles, I was under it for a mile or 2, which wasn't correct as I was still at about 2300 feet (YUL is at 117 ft asl, so I should have been in it until reaching 940 feet or so indicated). Then the system popped back into place again and I was back in the soup again. Right after that, for about a mile or so, it cleared up again (clouds above, but definitely well above what they should have been, then on short final I was back in it again. In other words, it looked the the wx was intermittently coming in and out all the way down final. I don't have a clue as to what might be doing this, as because of the widespread nature of the system, I'm quite sure any other reporting stations near YUL would be showing very similar conditions. Even CYQB (Quebec City) which is about 150 nm away was showing 800 and 1 in snow (RW report from Nav Canada, which matched what AS2 gave me). To tell you the truth, the intermittent weather I got looked a lot like the departure airport weather, but I didn't take note of the winds to confirm this.Now, after this rather long story, I had no points in my flight plan for east of Montreal. Should I have in order to get the weather for east of the city? Would it have made any difference, or should it read the nearest station anyway? Any other ideas, or is there anything I can send you that will make my problem more clear?Thanks once again guys! Appreciate the time.

The plan is mostly for winds data. Weather is based on nearest station. Try with global weather the opposite as it is now.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

OK, thanks Jim! Yes, that seems to have done the trick. I turned the Global Setting to OFF. It's maybe a little hard to tell on just one flight, but this time I took the 210 from Montreal to Quebec City in definite IFR weather, and I was pretty much just under or in the stuff at 5000 feet. No weird happenings at all (at least not with the weather - we won't talk about my flying skills :+ ). In fact, while I certainly had some changes with the winds, I didn't get any slewing or bouncing around at all (aka the windshear we've been discussing here a fair bit). The ceilings and vis definitely changed as well, but again, a very smooth transition, and also extremely realistic! The only anomaly that I found at all, was that I could see the ground even though I thought I should have been in the clouds. That was at Dorval on climbout, but when I got the flight watch report about 10 to 15 minutes after takeoff, they were calling the ceilings at somewhat above my altitude, so who knows. The clouds were definitely stratus (as they should have been :-) ), and hey, sometimes you can see down through stratus a bit anyway. This is also a known bug with FS (and they probably don't view it as a bug), and I've managed to be totally IFR even in that stuff, so whether you can see down through it or not (from inside) seems to be a variable to some degree right within FS. Now, if you can see down through a 3000 foot thick layer from above, then there's something wrong, but I've not noticed that recently, and certainly not with AS to date.So, things are really looking good here! The kinks are being worked out pretty quickly I'd say. Tomorrow the acid test - a flight across the "pond" to see how it handles long distances and open ocean wx :-). One thing I did earlier today was to try out the radar, and it really sucked the life out of this machine to be honest (high end machine too). However, I've since installed Chris' replacement clouds and tomorrow I'll give it another try. This drop in performance may or may not be related to the radar, so let's wait on that one. I know about turning down the display features as well, so I will play with that one too.Good stuff Jim! This is a blast (well, actually all this "test flying" is really "rough", but hey, someone has to do it, right? :-hah).