I'm just wondering if this cloud set is real?

Looks like real clouds and not a real cloud set to me - if you know what I mean! :-)

they choped the plane into the sky pic

Yep, real cloud set! 100% natural!The plane though is %100 simulated! :)Fs2k2 atmosphere does not filter in the blue wave lengths (or is that filter out all others? :)) like real sky and as your pic shows, other than that it would be nice to see a full cloud effect in FS like in the real world, hope we get something closer in FS2k4!

just like terrain mesh; cloud-mesh :-)

You need a super computer with more than a 128mb video card to get resolution of clouds that great! No way it is FS2002. FS2002 Sky world looks great, but not that great! Maybe someday we will get quality like that. It would suck if the clouds became better looking than the planes as in the pic above....