Hi,You can try AS2004.5, just don't run both at the same time.No, only if the vis. is low.What is your cloud draw distance set at? 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'm thinking of making you a movie to show you what is happening...Are you on ADSL ? Do you have a server where I can upload it to once i have it done ?

Hi,The screenshots show vis approx 10sm (from what I can tell) which indicates that nothing is actually wrong. The METAR report shown (CAVOK) assumes vis > 9999 or approx 6sm. Whenever vis is rendered lower than about 20nm (especially below 10) FS seems to overdo the "haze" factor. There unfortunately is no easy fix but we are working on things (as always) to improve the situation...You can always increase the minimum vis enforcement setting such as 20nm to force clear skies without any haze regardless of METAR report...Best,

Ah ha ! Gotcha !!I will give that a shot ! Thanks Damien !Can you also please give me a more detailed explanation of the option "Favour Cumulus over Stratus"...Does this setting "CHECKED" mean that cumulus will almost always replace stratus layers ? Or will stratus still be depicted but to a lesser degree...Startus layers do look nice, and it would be pitty to lose that if that setting is enabled.Why was this setting put in the software ?Thanks so far for all the help !

Well this morning before I had to run off to work I think I may have finally solved my problem. I noticed that in FS9 I have it set to FLIGHT TIME instead of SYSTEM TIME. I also noticed that my default flight has a date of 7/29/05 which is usually the flight that I will use. I then started ASV and as usual waited for the weather and of course the usual wall of fog. I thought about the time setting for a moment and wondered if perhaps ASV gets confused and tried to retrieve the weather based on the date in FS9. So I shutdown FS9 and ASV. Reloaded FS9 but this time changed the date on my default flight to the current date. I then started ASV. Waited for the weather to load. Weather loaded fine. I was expecting the wall of fog to appear but this time I did'nt. The beautiful clouds actually remained. This got me curious so I again shutdown everything and then restarted everything however I left the date at 7/29/05. The weather loaded once again BUT a few moments later the dreaded grey fog appeared. I did'nt have time to try this experiment a few more times just to confirm but I do have a question now. Does ASV take into account the DATE setting inside FS9 when it's loading weather? Thank you.

Hi,Not the date, but the time. But under the proper conditions it is possible that you were always getting the TAF conditions. You are in Online Mode right?Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Sales and Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

EXCELLENT !!!!That did the trick for me !!!!! I was starting up from KSEA, but moved to a airport locally ( Bristol ) and then set my time right in FS9, Now it works just PERFECT !!!!!! No Haze !!!!!! EXCELLENT !!! THANKS MATE !!!:-) :-)Check it out !!!http://img298.imageshack.us/img298/428/1large7gy.jpgWhat will I ever do without the Wild Wild Web !!! :-)

Now that is what I am used to seeing under those conditions!But what fixed it? Using system time in FS04? You were already using system time in ASV!I need to know for future posts!!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Sales and Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

>EXCELLENT !!!!>>That did the trick for me !!!!!>> I was starting up from KSEA, but moved to a airport locally (>Bristol ) and then set my time right in FS9, Now it works just>PERFECT !!!!!! No Haze !!!!!! EXCELLENT !!! THANKS MATE !!!:-)>:-)>>Check it out !!!>>http://img298.imageshack.us/img298/428/1large7gy.jpg>>>What will I ever do without the Wild Wild Web !!! :-)That looks fantastic. I'm really glad to hear that this actually worked. Now I can't wait to get home and mess around with it :)

>Now that is what I am used to seeing under those conditions!>>But what fixed it? Using system time in FS04? You were already>using system time in ASV!>>I need to know for future posts!!>>Hope this helps,>Jim>ActiveSky Sales and Support>http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg>http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpgEven if you dont use SYSTEM TIME but go in and manually update the date to the correct setting it will start to work. It did'nt seem like it was the time that mattered but more the date but of course I will play around more with this tonight once I get home.

>Hi,>>Not the date, but the time. But under the proper conditions it>is possible that you were always getting the TAF conditions.>You are in Online Mode right?>>Hope this helps,>Jim>ActiveSky Sales and Support>http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg>http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpgYup I've always been in online mode. And now everything seems to work fine even with FOG and HAZE enabled in ASV.

Jim....I was starting up by default at KSEA (FS9 Default). My FS9 is set to use SYSTEM TIME, so what you would find is that if it is 11AM in England for instance ( Where I am ) then if I start up in KSEA, it would be 11AM ? Yes ?Well....if i change airport to BRISTOL for instance ( UK ) then I couldn't figure out why it's suddenly Much Later than 11AM ( say 18:00 ), and I think this is where everything got screwed up..What I did then was to put my plane at BRISTOL airport, set the correct LOCAL TIME and save that flight as my default startup.....now all other times in the world should be "correct" in relation to MY time.....and this proved to be true.Then all of a sudden, the WEATHER worked pefectly too....probably because it was getting the correct TIME/METAR combination for that area at that time......It's just perfect now !!! I tried it 3 times and i get consistent results !!!Thanks for all the help !!!:-)I wonder how many people fly out there with their TIME set incorrectly !!!!

Yes, but I don't want to use system time always. I want to use a set time. What do we do then?Greg

You can set the time to whatever you want...If you get the haze pop up on startup, then you will just need to live with it if you do this, unless it's a real bug somewhere, in which case I'm sure Jim or Damien will investigate.We are just saying that after setting our time properly in FS and THEN starting up, the haze/fog did not POP up after a METAR loaded and while we were still on the ground.In a another post there is also mention of an issue in which I also still experience on occasion where the HAZE appears and dissapears in quick succession whilst in flight - almost as if it's switching on and off...this issue is something completely different i think...It might have something to do with the "blending" of weather between conflicting reporting stations in close proximity - but i cannot say for sure...Cheers

>We are just saying that after setting our time properly in FS>and THEN starting up, the haze/fog did not POP up after a>METAR loaded and while we were still on the ground.This is precisely the point. The problem was that the correct weather would initially load but then you start seeing the clouds literally dissappear one by one until finally I got a result of instant grey fog.>>In a another post there is also mention of an issue in which I>also still experience on occasion where the HAZE appears and>dissapears in quick succession whilst in flight - almost as if>it's switching on and off...this issue is something completely>different i think...This scenario I've seen many times but I believe that's just a well known problem with FS9 itself.>>It might have something to do with the "blending" of weather>between conflicting reporting stations in close proximity ->but i cannot say for sure...I wonder if you manually specified the station you want? Would that maybe help this problem as well? Will have to try that tonight and see.