Less than 1 mile visibility, absolute soup at KCWF today.I can take off and the near-zero vis continues up to 5000 and I pop out of it, but wait.. whats this.. I can see the entire ground everywhere around the regular clouds.It seems that once I clear the cloud deck it vanishes - and wont return until I'm down to about 2000.Whats up with that??Wind: 020 True, 5 KtsVis: 810 Meters, 1 SMClouds: 500 BrokenPrecip: Moderate RainTemp: 20C Dew: 20CPressure: 1012 mb, 29.89 inchesI bought 6.5 to fix that exact problem with FS9, just as A.S. has always brought home accurate visibility in previous FS versions.But so far, I've spent $37+ to generate lots of pretty clouds that KILLLLLL my frame rates while flying heavy-weight planes with full avionics (ESDG CitationX V2, PMDG, etc..)(The rates are fine with simple'ish planes flying RealityXP and GNS530)What good is flying IMC If I can see the airport from downwind at 5000 feet all the way to the outer marker then POOF! at ~1500 agl it FINALLY delivers the correct vis?Pointless, weird, and a waste of $$$. Regular ol FS9 will generate that nonsense for free.All I want it to do is to force actual visibility above and at the destination without a big framerate hit - is that possible?

Hi,Sorry, but we cannot force the FS04 graphics engine to keep the visibility layer in view. It is a FS issue that no one right now has been able to solve. The visibility layer will always drop from view once you are above it.You might want to turn down your cloud draw distance in FS to help with the frame rate hit.Thanks,

Thanks for the reply Jim, and sorry for the rant.Five years later and no fix, a lost cause I suppose...Ok, so what settings would I want on a mid-range system (specs below) that will bring on low visibility asap (while descending) and keeps the big fluffy clouds to a minimum?In other words... if there is a cloud deck or overcast, what settings will help ensure that it shows up at the right alt and is the priority layer? Nevermind what it looks like from cruise...Question..Why does fog/overcast sometimes vanish while other clouds stay in place when I pause? Basic specs:Athlon 64 x2 2.7GRadeon HD 4830 512mbGigabyte 7703.5G pc2-6400WinXP all updated

Hi,This problem also drives me crazy. This is the one and only let down with ASA for me.When I fly into an airport in IMC conditions, I often see everything until just before touchdown. At its best, I get great visibility until about 3 miles out, but this is at its best, mostly the vis only drops just before touchdown.Also, the cloud coverage is severely lacking in IMC (BKN/OVC) conditions. On the ground it looks fine, but once airborne and above it, OVC looks like SCT with BIG holes in the clouds where you can see the ground (I am running cloud layers at 20).I have asked on several occasions, and emailed requests to lock the destination WX when 50nm out, so that ASA has already updated to the correct WX in good time (which seems to be the problem). No joy on that one. AS6.5 used to allow a destination WX lock, but ASA only allows an interpolated one, which is too clever for its own good, and doesn't give you the WX you are looking for (ie, the correct WX for the airport you are flying into).One workaround which does work is to check the VIS at your desired airport, and then set the MAX SFC VIS slider in the ASA options to that setting (minimum of 1SM unfortunately not all that low). This keeps the VIS low, but again, once you are above 5000ish feet you loose it, and it doesn't seem to come back again until below 2000ft.I wish someone would solve this, although I am sure that if it was possible the guys at HiFi would fix it. There products and customer support are second to none.Neil

Hi,My "Settings" article is a part of this thread here:http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=192464It has been one of the most read topics in the history of AVSIM!Thanks,

Thanks for the link Jim,I have never seen that thread before.I have increased the two cloud settings in the FS9.cfg file to 12 and it is much improved.Now all you need to do is sort out the VIS problem and get the vis layer to appear much earlier and I will be a happy bunny :( Thanks again,Neil

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I'm using the new ASN demo now and I had some problems with visibility at night(fog). The metar in the weather engine indicated 300m visibility and 1279 RVR, but I couldn't see the runway until I was 50 FT or something of the treshold. What is the couse? Why isn't FSX fog-visibility as writen in the active sky metar?