I'm seeing clouds into the 30,000 foot range as well, and perhaps this is too much, but why do people on here think clouds don't occur above 25,000 feet?? If clouds above 25,000 feet exist in the Wx, then I'd like to see them, regardless is they aren't 100% representative of the shape (towering vertical clouds) that we might see in real life. You can select 3rd party clouds that I've seen look like vertical cloud types you see above 25,000 feet by the way.Now, if the ASA engine is misplacing the layers based on Wx data, then by all means fix that issue. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/m...ldtyp/home.rxml

Hi Everyone,Let me give everyone an update on this as Damian and I discussed this in the last few days.1. It is not a data issue.2. It is a depiction issue in FS.3. We thought we had it fixed with the SP1 release, but the fix is not working.4. We have it on the fix list for SP2.5. We have it on the wish list for SP2 to have an option for this, but we are not sure about that option.Thanks,

I'm seeing clouds into the 30,000 foot range as well, and perhaps this is too much, but why do people on here think clouds don't occur above 25,000 feet?? If clouds above 25,000 feet exist in the Wx, then I'd like to see them, regardless is they aren't 100% representative of the shape (towering vertical clouds) that we might see in real life. You can select 3rd party clouds that I've seen look like vertical cloud types you see above 25,000 feet by the way.Now, if the ASA engine is misplacing the layers based on Wx data, then by all means fix that issue.

It is not too much. However a METAR or TAF reports only the cloud base in feet AGL for the respective aerodrome/station.For instance a TCU can have a cloudbase of 2500' but the cell is building up to 25000'. Also a CB can have a base of 2000' and can build up to +FL500, specially in certain areas of the globe (the ITCZ for instance)The METAR do not gives info about the top of large vertical development clouds. For that you can view the SigWX charts.I dont have here the manual, but there are 3 types of clouds, according to their height: low, medium, high.low: from SFC to 6000' (correct me in the heights, because I'm not sure) stratus, cumulus, TCUs, CBs, nimbus; then you have variations of those clouds - stratocumulus, nimbustratus ( again, correct me if I miss some and I'm not familiar with nimbus clouds though) :( medium: from 6000' up to 20000' - these begins with the prefix 'alto' - altocumulus, altostratushigh: from 20000' up to 50000' (not sure again): all cirrus clouds and its variations - cirrus, cirrucumulus, cirrustratusBest regards (and please, correct me if I wrote something wrong and stupid! :( )

Lonepilot, you are right. Those are the values :) I guess the wrong thing here is not the cloud itself above 25000 feet, but the cloud base at 25000 or 30000, which will never occur for a cloud different from a cirrus. In fact I do expect to find clouds' tops well over 35000 feet, that is just so real. I don't know if there's a limitation for vertical extent in FS engine though. Maybe there should be two or more layers, where one ends the other one begins, so to reach higher levels.My two centsFede

Continuing this thread, hopefully I hope that HiFi team is trying to correct this annoying problem.I came from vacations and I did 3 flights, mainly in diverse areas of Europe.I had in those 3 flights, the 'company' of low level clouds, very pretty clouds by the way, but they dont belong to this heights! :( eheheYesterday I did an EHAM-LOWI with the company of mainly stratus clouds at +- 35000ft as I was cruising at FL390. Some cumulus did appear aswell but more stratus. That is, I think, because of the options in the 'Cloud Tab', to get more stratified clouds than cumulus, for FPS matters. I had also choose 0 layer in the 'Cloud Tab'.All the flights were made with a FP entered in ASA.Just a reminder, the other day, I guess 29th Aug, the Iberic Peninsula was almost clean of clouds, but the FL3XX stratus was there, and those were not cirruform clouds. eheheI'm using FS9.1, WinXP Pro SP3 32BitASA in the laptop via WideFS.If this is relevant, I use mainly PMDG 73NG/744 and LDS767 for jetlining. For turboproping the AWX B200 Xtreme, but had not flying it much now... :( Thanks in advance and hope Jim and his team resolve this problem in future updates.Best regards to all! :(