Hello team,Today I was flying above Italy and in a sudden I was among lots of clouds that went as a high as 35.000 ft.Is this correct or do i have to set things different.

Hello team,Today I was flying above Italy and in a sudden I was among lots of clouds that went as a high as 35.000 ft.Is this correct or do i have to set things different.

A couple of years ago I flew as a passenger from UK to Sicily in July. Round about level with Naples we hit cloud which towered above us. I don't know exactly what altitude we were at, though in a 737 I assume 30 to 35,000 ft. It was extremely bumpy, one of the worst cases of turbulence I've experienced.John

It can happen! I remember when I first got an earlier version of ActiveSky I was cruising along at 35,000 feet when I flew into clouds. I checked the report and the tops were over 40,000 (bad, bad storms below).

There's nothing wrong with seeing clouds at 35,000 ft, as far as I know, but when the Metar is not calling for them, why are they there. Seems to happen far too often, and is one on the reasons I posted about depiction problems (clouds and visibility) a few days ago. Clouds / Visibility come and go as these please, doesn't seem to matter what the Metar indicates. Sorry, can't offer a fix or solution, perhaps the SP1 release will fix things.Glen

Hi Gerard,What I would like you to try is on the Cloud Options screen, move your CAVOK Cloud Generation and No Data Cloud Generation sliders to zero and then see what happens.Thanks,

Jim, I'll respond, even though the suggestion was for Gerard. Just recently I tried this, as you have suggested it before as a help/fix, and it does initially get rid of the clouds (within the area that's influencing the weather at the moment), but usually within 50 miles (a few station changes real or interpolated) they creep back in. You can see them starting to form in the distant, or to the sides. The last time I tried, I set the last four sliders on the Cloud page to 0, and as I said above, the clouds were gradually back. It's the same with the visibility. The transitions between stations (and even within a station) whether real or interpolated, are not smooth enough to look real, in other words the changes (cloud/visibility) happen to sudden, very noticeable, and to be honest, it ruins the flight. In all fairness, I don't know how your supposed to depict some of the crazy Metars I see, skies clear, 2sm visibility, normal barometric pressure, no fog, haze, or anything else abnormal listed. The next Metar will have 3 cloud layers, 9sm visibility, and low barometric pressure, back to back stations (30 miles apart), and this at a time when I know the weather around my area is not really close to what is being reported.Glen

Clouds at 35,000 ft is perfectly normal in the temperate zone which includes Italy. If you fly to the tropics expect thunderstorms to reach at least 60,000ft. The atmosphere is thicker around the equator due to the effect of the Earth's rotation.Vololiberista

Clouds at 35,000 ft is perfectly normal in the temperate zone which includes Italy. If you fly to the tropics expect thunderstorms to reach at least 60,000ft. The atmosphere is thicker around the equator due to the effect of the Earth's rotation.Vololiberista

For sure,Things can get pretty crazy in the summer afternoons around South Florida.

Hi Gerard,What I would like you to try is on the Cloud Options screen, move your CAVOK Cloud Generation and No Data Cloud Generation sliders to zero and then see what happens.Thanks,

CAVOK was already set to 0.No Data Cloud Generation was set to 50.I will test tomorrow and let you know.NbMy MD-11 is flying incredible with the new beta ! I made several landings and also the U-turns are gone. Perhaps it comes down to the current settings for people who still experience issues. I will post mine tomorrow in another thread.:(

Hi Jim,Here a screenshot from this morning.Clouds till about 30.000 ft.I did set No Data Cloud Generation to 0 as you told me to.The station the weather was readed was Bastia ( Italy ) .When reading the next station St Catherine ( France ) the clouds faded away and when I looked back no more clouds at 30.000 ft.Also a screenshot from that part when looking back.This last screenshot looks more real to me.

Hi,Can you get this if you fly outside the area of Italy?As mentioned there have been reports of this to the team and I know they are still working on this issue.Thanks,

I think the PMDG is interfering this way, with the generation of the weather. Thats just my theory though. I don't really have issues when flying anything else