Let me start off by commenting that in my opinion, HiFi produce the best weather engines for FSX with ASA better than REX in depicting accurate weather. The winds were an issue but FSUIPC seemed to control that to a point where I could confidently fly my PMDG aircraft without any S-Turn overspeed issues. I recently upgraded to ASE with the promise of a more accurate depiction of weather and a much improved and new DWC which had basically overcome some of the problems with wind shifts in ASA.I installed ASE, read the manual and trawled the forums for the best configuration for the program. I have spent a whole day testing and changing settings as per the recommendations from the manual, forums and also the settings I originally used in ASA with FSUIPC. I now cannot complete a flight using PMDG 747-X without severe S-Turns and completely unrealistic wind shifts. Even using FSUIPC wind smoothing as I did in ASA is not completely effective. I am stsrting to think a may have been better off staying with ASA and maybe waiting for the service pack.

I had some S-Turns in LevelD yesterday, but we did have major storm over Europe. I hope this was the case :)

I test ASE and I not have "S-Turn". You test with "Dynamic Rate of change" in Zero ???

I test ASE and I not have "S-Turn". You test with "Dynamic Rate of change" in Zero ???

Yep, as I stated I spent basically a whole day testing.

Yep, as I stated I spent basically a whole day testing.

I don't use DWC as a general rule for several reasons. But in your case you should attempt to operate the sim with DWC off and FSUIPC weather off. Then enter the wind screen within your registered copy of FSUIPC and select 5 seconds for every knot or degree. ASE's cloud settings should indicate zero max cloud turb along with FSX "disable turb and thermal effects" checked. Try setting ALL the sliders on the left side of the ASE wind setting page to zero. It probably won't eliminate all of your s-turns but it should dampen them to less than 5 degrees of bank. The s-turns will be most noticeable in the climb \ decent portion of flight. Good luck.

I don't use DWC as a general rule for several reasons. But in your case you should attempt to operate the sim with DWC off and FSUIPC weather off. Then enter the wind screen within your registered copy of FSUIPC and select 5 seconds for every knot or degree. ASE's cloud settings should indicate zero max cloud turb along with FSX "disable turb and thermal effects" checked. Try setting ALL the sliders on the left side of the ASE wind setting page to zero. It probably won't eliminate all of your s-turns but it should dampen them to less than 5 degrees of bank. The s-turns will be most noticeable in the climb \ decent portion of flight. Good luck.

Thanks for your reply I will give those settings a go. I'm sure I tried very similar settings yesterday.

I don't use DWC as a general rule for several reasons. But in your case you should attempt to operate the sim with DWC off and FSUIPC weather off. Then enter the wind screen within your registered copy of FSUIPC and select 5 seconds for every knot or degree. ASE's cloud settings should indicate zero max cloud turb along with FSX "disable turb and thermal effects" checked. Try setting ALL the sliders on the left side of the ASE wind setting page to zero. It probably won't eliminate all of your s-turns but it should dampen them to less than 5 degrees of bank. The s-turns will be most noticeable in the climb \ decent portion of flight. Good luck.

I just use 1 second, I tried higher but that caused problems on approach as if the wind shift was high, on descent it would take too long for the wind to reduce to a realistic level at lower altitudes.

I just use 1 second, I tried higher but that caused problems on approach as if the wind shift was high, on descent it would take too long for the wind to reduce to a realistic level at lower altitudes.

You are absolutely correct on that point and thank you for making it. I fly mainly transport category aircraft and occasionally some GA stuff using normal decent/climb profiles. Any type of flying that involves rapid descent from high altitude winds most certainly would be adversely affected in using 5 seconds (the most realistic settings IMHO) in FSUIPC.