I keep taking off and landing at airports that are reporting OVC006 to OVC003 and below and I consistently see the runway / ground from 2000' to 3000' to the ground (or from takeoff till I climb to 2000' to 3000' AGL). I've only seen one other person complain about this, so I wonder what I could be doing wrong. BKN conditions are even worse - I guess to be expected. But with BKN, you should see the inside of a cloud more often than you see the ground.I'd really like to fly into an airport once that is reporting low weather and not see the runway at the outer marker (without setting the visibility to 1/4SM - ie. break out of the clouds). I was hoping that AS2004 could achieve this, but maybe it isn't really designed to.I have overcast enhancement clicked and I followed all the startup procedures (FSUIPC clear followed by minimum weather button followed by refresh). I don't have a registered version, would this make a difference? I've tried to mimic all the settings I've seen recommended here, but no luck yet. Any ideas? Could it be a driver problem for a graphics card, or is this just life?Thanks

I see the same things...I have an observation of 012 BKN 030 OVC and I am climbing through 5000' feet seeing the ground still. Then all of the sudden I will get a major weather hole and it will be almost clear. I flew from Kansas City to St Louis yesterday and all stations were reporting OVC skies less than 3000 feet. I was at FL250 and saw the ground almost the whole way there. That was not making me happy. I did not have a route loaded to do the "smoothing" but there should be no reason for that major of a disparity with no route loaded.

pc,In FS is clouds density set to maximum?Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

Chappie,Try with Global Area Writes turned off. Also a route loaded is recommended.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

Jim,Yup. 100% 3D, 100% density, detailed coulds (FSW clouds - 32-bit). Just like the manual recommends. I've now noticed several other people are having the same problem. Should AS2004 address this or not?Pat

Thanks,Let's see what Damian knows about this.JimActiveSky Support

Hi all,I am looking into this, please hold on.. It may be due to very low cloud layers not registering based on elevation issues, or it may be another problem. Of course you should see BKN and OVC layers and they should have high coverage if you've set it up for such in FS9 display settings. There may be an issue with the add-on clouds, there could be an issue with lack of available texture memory on your system/gfxcard which could also cause clouds to be skipped instead of draw. Hundreds of possibilities, I am working on many things at once, and will get to the bottom of this I promise! Thanks for your patience...-Damian

Thanks, I appreciate it. I know you guys are slammed right now - still having a lot of fun with the new toy.