I have a wireless network, and due to the location of my computer the network connection can break sometimes.During these times, AS6 will fail to download the latest weather. There will be a message like 'Download failed. Will attempt at next interval.' However, when this happens, stations along the route don't seem to be updated.The last two flights I've made were into Heathrow, and I got the weather through AS6 during descent. In both occasions, visibility has been low (3-4km), and the temperature has been around 0*c. When I get on the approach at Heathrow however, the temperature is 10*c and I can see the runway from 8 miles. When I minimise FS, AS6 has the message I put above. When I click refresh and go back into FS, the correct weather is loaded.I have AS6 patched to the lastest build. This has happened since a WinXP re-install.Thanks for any help.-Phil

Hi Phil,That is correct. If a download fails for whatever reason there is no data to be used. Manually refresh to establish that connection again and the data.We cannot go back to the old data because it has been cleared from the snapshot at the start of the download process.Hope this helps,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.comhttp://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/asv6...development.jpg http://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/asv6-banner-proud.jpg

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Hi Phil,This is part of the current design, to completely abort the update process (if online updates enabled) and the download can't complete.... then try again next update interval.The main reason for doing it this way (instead of allowing the write and other processes to complete) is to clearly indicate that a download process error exists. Without this, things would continue along normally without much indication that there is any problem. Downloads would become old/stale and the weather would never change. On the other hand, it can be problematic if the connection never resumes yet the flight continues (your case in point) as the wx stations your are flying into will not have anything written to them.Basically, the engine requires and assumes that the network connection is always available, recovering only if the connection problem is temporary.We will consider this when developing future updates. Ideally you should be clearly notified that the wx is stale and connection is broken, yet the other processes should continue normally to allow you to at least keep flying with properly depicted weather.In the mean time I would recommend using offline mode and TAF processing (to keep some dynamics) when you are experiencing connection difficulties.Best,

Thanks very much for the replies. I will try and find a way to boost my connection.-Phil