Alright, I have included the ASV settings and screenshot for this metar.KSEA 000000Z 27012KT 20SM OVC002 12/11 A3001We do have overcast on approach and it seems pretty accurate. That is the runway in front of me.Low vis would have made this a challenging approach. It definately takes some tweaking, and, notice I have everything on manual. The changing of the cloud textures each time, may have been a problem. Also, these are the 256x256. First photo is from 700 ABOVE, with a 200 overcast programmed into weather configurator for all stations.Second photo is ASV configThird photo is real flight low cloud cover on approach. They can land because they have runway environment in sight, even though ceiling is below mins.But amazingly as a side note, I went back to check this after I paused the sim to take the pictures, before posting this, and even though configurator is on, and online is supposed to be disabled, now I have a 6000 ft ceiling and clear visability....somehow everything updated to something that is not even in the sim----although maybe it is overriding the configurator? oh well... my guess is, just don't touch FS, after you set the weather....just fly! :)ASV guys, the most prolific problem, if we assume that the levels are roughly right give or take a couple of hundred feet, is the fact that buildings, mountains, etc all around the airport are shrouded by the overcast which is a couple of hundred feet thick. But, right around the airport, I would expect the top of the tower to be shrouded as it many times is with low overcast. Does the immediate airport not allow really low clouds around it? Now that I think about it, I always see clouds down to the deck in the country, around mountains, etc. But have never seen it at the airport. Is that an FS9 limitation?CB

Just had a thought. Does it matter if the FS9 ATIS voice is running while the update is occurring from ASV, even if one the ground? Could that be preventing the proper update? Or does the ATIS read what is in the ASV file I assume?CB

Is attachment 3 from Flight Sim or real life?I have never seen that detail in the landscape.Oh I just notice you said 3 is real life. :-)

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GlenI am having similar issues ...I want to create a weather situation where the clouds are low and overcast for IFR practice , and using the configurator , I seem to get rather random weather which varies over time , despite having an IFR metar for all areas .It doesnt seem to matter if I apply to all areas or pick a location and a range..the weather is DEFINATELY not showing what it is supposed to..this is only happening with the configurator , all online asv weather is working well..what exactly can I be doing wrong that the weather I request does not appear (I am applying and then updating and closing the page)CheersBill P

I think I know whats going on here..I edited the supplied fogged in template to reduce the overcast lower and saved it under a new name ..I then noticed it had added 00000Z at the top of the metar string..this would appear to prevent it actually applying this metar...when its all applied , fsv seems to have ignored the configurators metar when the string was removed so it started with just the winds NOT 0000Z then the metar gets applied as expected....I also turned off update suppression hope this makes sense to someone!Bill PLondon

Interesting reading these threads on OVC. I was having the same problem with AS2004.5 and launched a hot topic on this in this forum about a month ago. It seems this is the same problem I had with 4.5. If you go to spot view with the presumed OVC the "hole" isn't just around the airport it follows the plane everywhere! Chris and Jim addressed this and the determination was that it was an FS9 issue. I also am Comm-ASEL-IFR and wanted to simulate those nice 2-300 foot OVC approaches and it can't be done no matter what I try with 4.5 or ASV. The only way I get it is with good old 2002 and wxRE! I'll keep tracking these threads to see if someone else can get nice solid OVC in FS9.Doc

Bill & Doc,That is what this is all about

I noticed that the wx configurator only updates the current metars and not the TAF. Since the 0000Z isn't always the closest to the time I'm using to fly, it uses that TAF. At least this is what I think is happening. I made the whole world a "clear day" using the configrator, then manually edited all the TAFs for a 100 mile area around around where I was flying (KGRK) to the metar used in the hurrican theme (trying to get extremes). It seemed that I unless I was close to 7pm Local I got weather other than a perfect day.Brad

>Is attachment 3 from Flight Sim or real life?>I have never seen that detail in the landscape.Ayeeee!Yeah FS9 is great but...Aykes! How could it be exchanged for the sim???You could almost see the single snow flakes! :D

Bill,This sounds useful advice if you're using the configurator, i.e. to re-edit the configurator metar so that it doesn't think its off-time. But this whole layer thing isn't just a problem with the configurator. Just how does ASV work out where the top of a layer is??? Metars and TAFs only give you the base. I've tried in vain to get it to simulate today's weather (I'm only 35 miles west of London so similar to yours with Few (very flat) Cu under the subsidence inversion. Using the real time (now that the server problem has sorted itself) Metars from Heathrow and others in the area give more like scattered, even what looked like broken in one case, all with tops way up. I tried the various cloud options in the AE but they all look like towering Cu. This is very easy with the default FS9 but very time consuming if not impossible in ASV. It seems a major flaw that you have to work with Metars which give a very incomplete picture of the cloud structure (no tops, CAVOK, 9999 etc). I'd also like to have poor or mod vis under the inversion and clear above (though not the sharp line that the FS9 haze layer produces) but I haven't yet found anything in ASV that allows me to set the depth of the haze layer and my attempts to set 5 miles vis, say, in the configurator have been thwarted by an update occurring despite online updates being disabled.Mervyn

It is good to see that others are seeing the "hole" around the aircraft with clouds! Furthermore, does anyone else notice that the clouds go down to the deck everywhere off airport, in the mountains, in the valleys, in the towns, etc. But, never on the airport!Anyway, I wouldn't have spent $60 plus to buy all of Damian's products if I didn't like them, BUT, it is obvious that something has changed since 2004.5Also, THE POSTER ABOVE FINALLY described my problem with the configurator. I think the TAF is still being updated even though the configurator takes ASV to offline mode, and I have TAF updating unchecked in ASV. Even though I can get OVC clouds at 500-700 AGL now when they should be at 200, after I fly around the local area a bit, all of the clouds change to something else. Could the 00000Z time have something to do with it? Is configurator still seeing a TAF and overriding the METAR string that we put in?But, please guys, I thought I had it solved, but I don't. Overcast does look awesome, but it is just at the wrong levels. Maybe your attempt in ASV to put in stability factors, was just too much, and is too complex for FS9. Can we just get ASV to read a simple METAR string? You guys had it before really well!CBCB