Just curious; how long approx will it take from a METAR is issued at an airport in e g Sweden until I can download that METAR into my ASV and see the actual weather in FS?

Hi,Anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Sales and Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

I fly alot on the west coast of sweden (ESGG, ESGP, ESMT, ESGT, ESGJ) and never get any fresher than one hour later. Sure it updates every 20/30 minutes but it's still behind realtime by one hour. It's no big problem but I hope the lag could be shortened.

If the new Active Sky program uses ADDS metar information,(Active Sky should update as specified to the program user interval)It updates whenever a new metar is issued.The ADDS Weather site is very persistent on updating METARS.(http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/metars/)METAR updates are made at the top of each hour or whenever a significant change occurs.Now, if the program still uses NOAA Metar informaion, then the Active Sky downloads from:"http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml" isn't usually consistant on a timely basis with the weather you are currently seeing.This has been an issue of instrest. I use Active Sky wxRE. An the weather download isn't consistant because it's METAR source is http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml.(METAR UPDATES are not consistant from this site)If you compare an contrast the 2 websites with the same or different metars at the top of each hour. You'de see the relation.Example:As of now the current METARS from NOAA are 11:20 UTC from: ESGG, ESGP, ESMT, ESGT - 07:20, ESGJ.From ADDS Weather, the current metars are 13:20.Big difference.