Just curious if I have one of my settings worng because i am in cuyl and it had a reported ceing of 400 feet overcast. So i take off set my autopilot to level off at 600 feet asl (500agl). it does but i am not in the cloud yet. so i go up another 100 feet. no cloud. another 100 feet. no cloud and so on. i got up to over 1000 feet and still not in cloud. anyone know what could be wrong. thx in advance.

Maybe the metar changed. JUst a thought!

Hi,Could you see the clouds?Also, surrounding stations may have blended the weather after take off. Remember a station has a direct influence range of 2 miles. After that distance a blend is used.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Sales and Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

Just want to add that it was few clouds at 400 ft and the overcast was at 800 ft. Shortly after takeoff another staion called cwul kicks in with a report which like Jim says blends in the wx, meaning if you see or don't see surrounding clouds is really important in this case.