Hi all. I'm new to ASA and have a few questions, hope you can help me. First of all, no network config, Vista 64, FSX.1) How does the global weather mode work? I mean, it doesn't take account of every single station, ok, but how will it reproduce the weather? By the closest station? Making an average?2) I had just one flight today, no global weather, the simple (and more real, in my opinion) one. At departure the weather was correct, but not at destination. Mostly the wind was wrong ( I read around there are issues with no global wx), but also temperature and pressure: reported temp was 38, QNH 2988, the depicted one was 24 and QNH 3011. Nearby station were reporting the same values, more or less, with the same mistakes. 3) Is it correct if I change airport that the weather is not depicted correctly? I was standing at an airport, and saw on the map that another nearby airport was having a TS. Moved there, no TS at all. Just some cumulus, but nothing more.My point is: if I read the bullettins before the flight, I expect a certain wx, in the whole (visibility, prec, temperature, etc). How can I make sure that these METAR's will be correctly represented (of course they will change during the flight, but you got what I mean)? Are there any particular settings to set in the options page? I like the interpolation between stations during the flight, but if the METAR says the wind is 340/20, temp, press, etc have certain values, I'd like to see those depicted as the WX was issued from that airport, so no interpolation should occur (unless the METAR is quite old, so a bit of interpolation between stations and maybe TAF's), at least at departure and destination. My two cents at least..Thanks a lot,FedericoI forgot, ASA 431! :)

Ok, I made another attempt tonight, but this time I used the global mode on. It's awsome! It works perfectly! There are a couple of negative things tough, not related to weather depiction. I have a quite strong hit on the system, which I hadn't notice yesterday without global depiction. And, Radar Contact seems to suffer several delays. This had never happened before. When I press the button to set a frequency the FSUIPC window remains frozen for several seconds before the switch happens. Also with Otto on coms. Can it be related to it? I had only ASA and RC running. I'll talk about this with JD too, and see what he thinks.Cheers,Fede

Hi,What are your system specs?Both RC and ASA are powerful applications. See if setting ASA Force High Priority Processes either way makes a difference for you.Thanks,

I have a X2 6400+ @3.21 GHz, Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 Mb, 6 Gb RAM DDR2 800 on Vista 64. That option was enabled, I'll try disabling it and report.Cheers,Fede

I have a X2 6400+ @3.21 GHz, Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 Mb, 6 Gb RAM DDR2 800 on Vista 64. That option was enabled, I'll try disabling it and report.Cheers,Fede

Yes, ASA with DWC enabled has a known issue with Radar Contact. I have reported it on several occasions and not a single mention of the issue being fixed in any of the ASA beta release threads. This only leaves me to believe that the two authors have not been able to come to some agreement as to how to properly fix the issue. DWC remains disabled on my boxes.

In fact nothing changes. Enabled or not I have this delay. I'll talk about this with JD, but I guess he can't do that much here.One more thing: with DWC I constantly have a shifting wind condition when climbing. Most of the times it's just speed to change, but tonight it went crazy shifting front back right left fast slow continuosly. Is it supposed to work this way? The visibility smoothing is very very nice, works well. The global wx anyway helps me setting the correct weather at destination, with some delay though. I started checking the ATIS from 80 miles out and it changed 5 times, but I guess it's due to the global wx "nature". I am now trying to force wx destination and see, even though 80 miles radius seems too much, 50 would be enough, in my opinion.I'll report later.Cheers Fede

Sorry, I forgot one thing. I can't remeber where I read this (somebody had reported this already), but I have encountered cumulus clouds with base at FL280 up to FL370, too. The METAR was CAVOK (I have both sliders for CAVOK and NO DATA set at 0). Seeing a nice CB up to FL500 can be very challenging and normal for certain areas, but normal cumulus are by definition from the surface to 25000 feet, while altocumuls can form between 6000 feet and 23000 feet. At 35000 feet I'd expect a CB top or some cirrus types clouds.Fede

Fede,Please let me know if you need me to respond to anything you have posted.I will comment on the RC--DWC situation. As you know DWC sets weather to Global Mode in FS. This means that every station in FS has the same weather. When RC reads the weather from FS, what is it going to read? The global conditions set by DWC. The solution is not to use DWC if you are going to use RC. If RC could read the external ASA data then it could read the specific airport data, but this would mean some re-programming by the RC Team. Remember that ASA is our first attempt at DWC.Thanks!

Fede,Please let me know if you need me to respond to anything you have posted.I will comment on the RC--DWC situation. As you know DWC sets weather to Global Mode in FS. This means that every station in FS has the same weather. When RC reads the weather from FS, what is it going to read? The global conditions set by DWC. The solution is not to use DWC if you are going to use RC. If RC could read the external ASA data then it could read the specific airport data, but this would mean some re-programming by the RC Team. Remember that ASA is our first attempt at DWC.Thanks!

Thanks Jim, that's ok, you answered enough questions. So I'll have to use the normal way for depicting weather. Anyway I'm still experimenting with settings to find the most suitable for me, but let me tell you I am having the same issue other users have reported: I can't have a "clear" sky even setting the CAVOK and NO CLOUD DATA at 0. Clouds are always present somehow.Thank you,Fede

Hi,Disable all your thermal generations and see what happens.Thanks,

Hi,Disable all your thermal generations and see what happens.Thanks,

You mean in "thermals and vertical air" put everything to 0? Do you think it's this to cause the clouds to appear?Fede

Tried, but made no difference. Anyway, as I'm stubborn :), I went on trying and trying. I unchecked the prevent cloud redraws, moved cavok to 1, then back to 0, saved, no more clouds when CAVOK reported. I let the aircraft fly for 45 minutes straight, with no destination, just checking the AS map, and where the stations were reporting CAVOK there were no clouds. I don't know why, or how, but that made the trick. Then I tried renabling the prevent cloud redraws, and it went fine again, no clouds. Don't know..Fede

It seems it is really the "prevent cloud redraws" to cause the never-cavok situation. If somebody else can try, please. Try disabling it, the sky should clear (of course with cavok clouds generation set at 0).Fede