I have a problem when using both ASX and AS6.5, I will refer to FSX/ASX but its similar with AS6.5/FS9. I very often fly VFR at low altitudes say 2000 to 4000 feet and load the route into ASX Flight Plan option. The wind to the first waypoint today was 227/25 (on the plan readout) but the actual wind in FSX was 208/8 hense the 'Hdg to Fly' and time to waypoint will be slightly out. This was the same for every waypoint along the route, predicted wind speed was 25 to 27 knots astual was 8 or 9.This makes trying to fly an accuate VFR couse difficult.Glen

This aspect of flying isn't too far from reality. Winds aloft charts are produced every 8 hours (three times a day) and only show the winds for the time the weather balloons were sent up. By the end of that 8 hours, things can be quite different. Really, the winds aloft data is accurate only for that time that it was taken and for the specific spot it was taken. The report is useful for predicting trends and having a general idea of what to expect up in the air, but I wouldn't expect to be able to use wind data and accurately determine my actual headings or times en route. In the real-world, you just mark out landmarks along your route and head so that your plane will fly over them, or if you're intimate with the area you fly, you just fly towards where you know your destination lies.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

JohnThanks for your comments.I appreciate what you say, wind in the real world is not an exact science and I should change my flying technique within FSX to those real world limitations.On a more technical query I would be interested to know why when ASX says the wind at 2000 feet should be 227/25 its actually reported as 208/8 in FSX. Please don't take this as any critism I am just curious to know why the predicted wind in ASX and actual in FSX is not the same.Glen

Hi Glen,Part of this may be the smoothing and part may be due to blending between wind stations. Lastly, part may be due to the poor way that SimConnect is handling wind data.Thanks,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/

JimThanks for your reply, I was just making sure there wasn't a setting I may have missed.Glen

Does AS report current winds aloft in the program? Or does it just show you the report it used to interpret the winds data?----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach