Hi everyone!We are working on Service Pack 2, which should be in beta testing very soon and released shortly after.The primary focus of SP2, besides fixing a few small issues reported, is to significantly improve wind and visibility smoothing. We've been working hard over the past couple months on a new method of injecting weather in FSX which circumvents these problems, and we believe we have finally made major progress. The great news is that while this new method was originally reserved for our new weather engine product due late next year, we have been able to co-develop/port this over to ASX and things are looking very positive.SP2 will be a free upgrade for all ASX users!More information and release status will be available very soon.Thanks!

This is fabulous news Damian. We wind smoothing geeks may not be as vocal or numerous as the "wing view" crowd, but none the less passionate. Thanks for the effort on this update.Ryan

Great news! I was noticing a marked decrease in wind shift problems with the newest FSUIPC 4 installed and wind smoothing checked. Still notice some sudden wind shifts, but not as bad as they were before. Can't wait to try out the new patch.

Hi,New to posting here, but have just been using FSX and ASX with the new PMDG airplane.. Problem is I get bad wind shifts at altitude. But it seems this problem is already known and looks like a solution is in the pipleline.. In the meantime I will try the FSUIPC smoothing..CheersCraig

Will it solve the overcast issues?

Thank you very much Damian, that is great news!Cheers,Martijn

Thank you much HiFi! Good news indeed!Just curious to know, was this partly an outcome of the behind-the-scenes colaboration with Pete? Is FSUIPC involved in the solution?

>The great news is that while this new>method was originally reserved for our new weather engine>product due late next year, we have been able to>co-develop/port this over to ASX and things are looking very>positive.Thank you *so* much for putting such emphasis on keeping your existing customers happy. I know you could have easily restricted this to the Advanced product-- Ireally appreciate your continued tradition of looking out for your exiting customers.

How will we be advised when this update happens?Tim

We'll post the news all over the place!!Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/

Ha. I'm anxious and don't want to miss out.Thats Jim

Thank you so so much Damian for all this efforts that you are making since the very beginning of this fantastic and indispensable product.Last night, I made my worst cross the pond flight ever in my Leveld 763 on Fsx!! Winds was approx at 90kts shifting abruptly all around from tail to head and left to right. And what is the most amazing, I completed my flight from Kiah to Lfpg but in almost 11hrs rather the 8hrs and 40 min that the flight planning from ASX did forcast.Thank you again and can't wait for SP2.Christian

>Will it solve the overcast issues?Don't hold your breath on an answer to this topic. I am sure if they had a line on fixing this issue they would have announced it along with the wind shift fix.

>Will it solve the overcast issues?I'll tell you what...I have ASG/ASX + FEX and for the first time since, oh, FS4, I am getting believable overcast layers.It's not perfect, but it's getting pretty close.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

>Thank you much HiFi! Good news indeed!>>Just curious to know, was this partly an outcome of the>behind-the-scenes colaboration with Pete? Is FSUIPC involved>in the solution?ASX uses SimConnect, not FSUIPC?RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian