If the tone of this post sounds frustrated, well, I am! Not angry, just frustrated - and very disappointed...I sat down one hour ago to fly FS9, and I am still stuck trying to load weather in AS! I'm basically far from PC illiterate and I've followed the instructions in the manual a dozen times over but I still get run-time errors trying to fetch reports or whenever I use Wx Finder (AS closes down completely); no weather loading in FS9 after spending forever trying to install METARs or pre-saved/default templates into the programme, "Error During Process..." messages every time I try to load up a flight plan entry (none of my flight plans load!) ...I am sure AS6 is a wonderful thing - enough people say so. But if there is no way to open the interface, load up weather requirements within a couple of minutes and see the results in FS9, without all these errors (is my installation suddenly corrupt and in need of a reinstall?) the end result is that feeling, familiar to all PC users in one capacity or another, of just wanting to throw the whole lot out of the window and do something else! After an hour of anguish with AS6 I certainly am no longer in the mood to fly FS9!So do I just uninstall AS6 and say I wasted my money? I've posted several times here already with one problem or another, and though Jim is very helpful, I can't try everyone's patience indefinitely! Mine is definitely almost exhausted I'm afraid. Am I just unlucky, or is this not just my experience?M. :-)

Hi Martin,I have read over all your posts and I think you are trying to do too much all at once.Some of the error messages you are getting are unique to you and I have not seen them before from any user, such as the Wx Finder errors.My question about the Flight plan error: Is this a FS04 generated plan?Because I know the nature of your set-up I am going to ask you to work through e-mail with me. We are going to go slowly and work on one thing at a time. Then we will see how things go.So drop me a line at [email protected] and we'll start with some things I need to ask you about. Hope this helps,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development TeamActive Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter

Hi Jim,I appreciate your help, I really do. If you hadn't been so good with the 'after-sales service', I think I'd be asking for my money back though - partly because I originally posted to AVSIM simply asking how to load different weather settings at departure and destination points - I had no thought of buying AS at that stage, already having FE installed. You replied advising me to buy ActiveSky for this however, which I eventually did: I since found out how to do what I originally wanted purely in FS9 (how come I hadn't sussed this before, having been simming for 3 years!), so in one sense I wasted my money getting AS6.That said, even without ASG, AS6 clearly does a great deal more than I had anticipated, and much of that, when I get it all working, I will, I am sure, greatly appreciate. This, together with your patient and genuinely helpful 'customer care', means I shall not ask for a refund - perhaps even under the above circumstances, you would not be happy to give one in any case, and I wouldn't want any unseemly wrangling in public here on AVSIM! :-)However, I have uninstalled AS6 from my FS PC for now - leaving it on my internet-enabled PC so that I can experiment. You are maybe correct that I am trying too much all at once - not necessarily with AS6, but I have downloaded quite a lot of stuff recently that I am trying to get to grips with, let alone my own various scenery projects I have on the go using Ground2K4 and so on! In a day or two I'll reinstall AS6 afresh and contact you at the e-mail address you have given. Clearly don't worry too much about outstanding questions on this forum - we'll start again from scratch.Thanks again Jim,Martin :-)