Damian/Jim,I know that your hands are full at the moment with the maintainence release, but I have an idea that should be easy to impliment in later releases if you think it's a good one. These ideas affect those who use AS2004 primarily in the offline mode, as I do.Let me preface by saying that I'm a pack rat - I save every weather cycle I download. I've been modifying the default file name and including local conditions at my home/default airport: 012004-20z-KLEB-OVC-Clr-south-+SN-North.dat or something to that effect. Sometimes, I download the intellicast jpg of the USA and zip 'em up.1.) Because the .dat files are 3 times larger than the downloaded compressed data, would it be possible to automatically save the compressed version to hard disk, rather than the larger .dat file and decompress to current_weather_snapshot.txt at runtime or upon loading a weather file? Save me a lot of disk space.2.) Would it be possible to include a user-definable "info" txt file with each downloaded weather file? By way of example, I used to use GetWeather 3.0 from www.bearsoft.de with default FS9 real weather. Built into it's UI was a file manager that allowed the user to click on a downloaded archived set of weather files, and edit a field which could include whatever description one wanted. I usually pasted the current weather forcast, or a brief synopsis of weather features within 200 nm of my local airport. The benefit to this is that when I want to fly through a snowstorm in july, i can easily go back to my saved files and find that metar and taf that reflect the conditions I desire... I've been doing this in effect manually by zipping up the radar composite and the .dat file, but it would be nice to have this functionality built into the user interface...Just an idea. Curious to know what others think.Best,sg

The disk space isn't too much of an issue for me, but I agree that having an editable description field for a saved weather file would be very nice. Right now I am trying to offer somewhat of a description in the file name, but it would be great to have something a bit more robust.

Right now I think a simple Notepad text file zipped together with the .dat file might work. With WinZip you can open the text file without un-zipping the whole thing.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

Hi Scott,Sounds like two great ideas there.. I will be working on this :) Thank you for the suggestions, as always!!!-Damian