to enhance the reality i would really like to know how to get a thick cloud layer displayed both below and above??i have never in the real world experienced that i takeoff from an airport with full overcloud and when i fly throu the thick layer and get above i can suddenly see the ground and the only cloudslayer below i a thin haze????can't this be fixed??activeSky can easely make a single cloud NOT seethrou but when i comes to a thick rainy cloud layer i can't???i really hope i got a solve for me...Thanks for a GREAT program, besides the problem above...

Hi,Overcast enhancement On in AS?Cloud cover 100% complex and maximum coverage set in FS?Framerate locked at a reasonable number for your system? If not, then FS will adjust some details.Remember that the METARs must have OVC in them.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

this is the metar for Denmark today where it is overcast and rainyACTIVE METAR REPORTEKVA 131920Z 22008KT 8000 -RA SCT004 BKN010 BKN070 14/12 Q1000ACTIVE TAF REPORTEKVA 131650Z 131803 23020G30KT 9999 FEW020 SCT025 BKN050 PROB30 TEMPO 1803 6000 -SHRA FEW015 FEW018CB SCT020 BKN030 RMK AUTO GENERATED AS2004 RMK AUTO GENERATED AS2004ACTIVE ALOFTFL030: 214/44 (13.6) FL060: 219/47 (7.0) FL090: 222/43 (4.1)FL120: 216/42 (-4.1) FL180: 210/42 (-15.9) FL240: 210/44 (-27.9)FL300: 225/52 (-35.4) FL340: 239/92 (-53.4) FL390: 238/82 (-53.4)it is cloudy when at the airport, but when i fly throu the cloud layer and get above som of the layrs seems to dissapere, and when i get below again, the overcast arives just after passing the lowest layer??settings are as you told me too but what is OVC??can it affect anything, that i don't use the original cloud BMP??

Hi,Thanks for the data. It helps me because then I can see what AS is processing and what it may look like in FS. First answer, OVC stands for overcast. In your example you have no overcast, a layer of scattered clouds and 2 layers of broken clouds along with some light rain. From the airport I bet it looked like a solid cloud layer above you, but it was not. You took off and broke through the first layer and OMG you could still see the ground. That was the scattered layer. Then at 1000 you saw non-solid clouds and at 7000 once again non-solid clouds.Your add on cloud textures would not have any influence on this stuff! Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

jep, your are right that was what i saw!!but how can i see from the metar report that the weather is overcast?? then i can just keep an eye on it and load the fs9 when there is overcast somewhere ind the world...thanks until now!!

Hi,Because one of the cloud layers will be coded as OVC in the METAR.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

hello Jimim back ;-)i just been flying over the hurricane and took at screen shoot and the metar...this is the metar and the picture that i took should be in here as well.... ihave attached the picturehttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/91252.jpghope you can see the problem!!!KSEM 160553Z 07023G29KT 5SM -RA BKN015 BKN020 OVC090 25/22 A2970 RMK AO2 KSEM 160525Z 160606 08020G30KT 4SM -RA OVC015 TEMPO 0609 2SM RA FM0900 08025G35KT 4SM -RA OVC015 TEMPO 0913 2SM TSRA BKN012CB FM1300 11030G45KT 3SM -RA BR SCT007 OVC015 TEMPO 1317 1SM +TSRA BKN007CB FM1700 12035G50KT 2SM SHRA OVC012 TEMPO 1720 1/2SM +TSRA OVC006CB FM2000 15035G45KT 3SM -RA BKN018 TEMPO 2024 1SM TSRA OVC010CB FM0000 17018G28KT P6SM BKN025 TEMPO 0206 2SM SHRA RMK AUTO GENERATED AS2004FL030: 066/34 (20.4) FL060: 099/44 (18.2) FL090: 104/39 (16.6)FL120: 109/31 (7.3) FL180: 095/24 (-4.8) FL240: 093/20 (-14.4)FL300: 094/19 (-20.6) FL340: 129/23 (-38.1) FL390: 150/31 (-49.8

Hi,I see and yet I honestly have no idea why for that METAR.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg