Afternoon, I had a problem with AS2K4 writing data to FS, and to make a long story short, had to reinstall FS, and everything seems to be ok now except for one thing. My wind seems to always be off my no more that 20 deg. For example, just departed KLAS with winds reported at 080@11, but of FS they were 067@11. I noticed the same thing in ABQ. Is this normal?? Also, on my PMDG 737, my FMC has the winds correct with AS but FS is off a little. For example, right now FS is reading winds at 199@11 but my FMC reads 213@11. Strange. If this is normal, I can live with it.Also, when I am putting in a New route to activate wind smoothing, does it need to be a different route that what I am flying, or can it be the same.Thanks for any help on this ahead of time. : )

Hi Brett,Winds look normal to me. What you have to remember is that AS reports true wind direction while FS reports magnetic direction. A while back I did have a link that showed the magnetic declination for the USA.You should activate wind smoothing before you take off with the route you will be flying.I feel this support issue is solved so I'm going to lock it!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg