At the moment ASE has gone complely crazy on me, to the point where it is not even a usable program. It will insert the weather at first, but after flying out of the departure airport, a few minutes into the climb I will loose all my weather, and it is very unlikely it will ever come back. I figure that it could be with FSUIPC because when I had al the weather settings off, things seem to work better, and there are times that I can recover the ASE weather by turning off FSUIPC weather in flight. Also there seems to be a consensus on the HiFI boards that FSUIPC does not play well with ASE, and quite frankly HiFi seems to have given up on fixing the problem with that and the issues with PMDG aircraft (they blame PMDG 100% btw). For those of you who can get FSUIPC to work with ASE how do you do it? I am to the point where I am going to throw ASE in the trash, and it just dosent work.I need to use the wind smoothing of FSUIPC because otherwise my PMDGs will get thrown out of the sky. And I cannot use the global mode in FSX because that botches up RC4.Anybody can help a fellow simmer out? Or should I try using REXs WX functions (I left REX back when it was version one and could never handle pressure right)

I have spent countless hours trying to get ASE working right, Jim from their support tries to help but 90% of the time I don't think he understands the issues I'm having.It seems stupid, if I have ASE running with DWC on I get proper weather, pressure and temperature but I always get assigned the wrong runway for landing. With DWC off I get screwed up wind, wrong temperatures and generally everything is out of whack except I actually get a proper runway to land on.The other day with DWC off at FL360 the report page in ASE said the OAT was -66 degrees C. The TAT on my 747 was reading -19. I know TAT is always higher than OAT but 40 degrees seems a bit much, especially when I turned DWC on the TAT immediately dropped to about -33 which seemed more appropriate.Nevermind the wind issues, nothing ever shows up right there with DWC off.I use FSUIPC as well, on the "Winds" page I have all 5 checkmarks in "wind smoothing" on, with a "2" in the top box for this many knots or degrees per second. I also have "Allow changes to FS own weather" checked, however that one doesn't seem to do anything.Under "clouds Etc." I have "smooth pressure by this value" checked and 20 is in the box. I also have "Smooth temp by this" and 100 in the box (those are the default values).So even though ASE is not providing the right weather, with these FSUIPC settings at least my PMDG and Level D planes are controllable, they don't go all sideways and veer all over the place.I've devised a method that works for me, which is inconvienient and annoying, but it works. I start ASE with DWC on then fly to about 200ish miles from my destination, then I turn off DWC, close ASE and open it again. Now DWC is off, when I get my runway assignment I get assigned to the correct runway. Sometimes as I descend I notice the TAT on the plane dropping (which is stupid, one time I was at FL120 and TAT was -32 over KLAS in July... Not likely) so I go close ASE again and open it again. Then things get a tad bumpy briefly while everything corrects itself.It's not ideal but it works for me.I know I'm not the only one with these problems, my best guess is lots of people who have ASE don't notice the things going wrong or they don't say anything or they don't care.Jeff Calder

I have spent countless hours trying to get ASE working right, Jim from their support tries to help but 90% of the time I don't think he understands the issues I'm having.It seems stupid, if I have ASE running with DWC on I get proper weather, pressure and temperature but I always get assigned the wrong runway for landing. With DWC off I get screwed up wind, wrong temperatures and generally everything is out of whack except I actually get a proper runway to land on.The other day with DWC off at FL360 the report page in ASE said the OAT was -66 degrees C. The TAT on my 747 was reading -19. I know TAT is always higher than OAT but 40 degrees seems a bit much, especially when I turned DWC on the TAT immediately dropped to about -33 which seemed more appropriate.Nevermind the wind issues, nothing ever shows up right there with DWC off.I use FSUIPC as well, on the "Winds" page I have all 5 checkmarks in "wind smoothing" on, with a "2" in the top box for this many knots or degrees per second. I also have "Allow changes to FS own weather" checked, however that one doesn't seem to do anything.Under "clouds Etc." I have "smooth pressure by this value" checked and 20 is in the box. I also have "Smooth temp by this" and 100 in the box (those are the default values).So even though ASE is not providing the right weather, with these FSUIPC settings at least my PMDG and Level D planes are controllable, they don't go all sideways and veer all over the place.I've devised a method that works for me, which is inconvienient and annoying, but it works. I start ASE with DWC on then fly to about 200ish miles from my destination, then I turn off DWC, close ASE and open it again. Now DWC is off, when I get my runway assignment I get assigned to the correct runway. Sometimes as I descend I notice the TAT on the plane dropping (which is stupid, one time I was at FL120 and TAT was -32 over KLAS in July... Not likely) so I go close ASE again and open it again. Then things get a tad bumpy briefly while everything corrects itself.It's not ideal but it works for me.I know I'm not the only one with these problems, my best guess is lots of people who have ASE don't notice the things going wrong or they don't say anything or they don't care.Jeff Calder

Now when you use FSUIPC with all the winds settings and cloud settings on, do you run into the issue where the weather will disappear? Because it seems that on my system, when I try to have FSUIPC fix as many things as it can, Active Sky's weather ends up getting lost somewhere. I still get messages showing up that ASE is downloading updates, that stations are getting updated, ASE knows my aircrafts current location, and I can run tests to know 100% simconnect has a connection and is working. I did have global mode on at one point, and it does create good weather, gets FSX to show what ASE thinks it is showing, but for me the problem is it makes RC come to a total crawl in approach phase of the flight, which leds me again to think the way ASE deals with FSUIPCs presence in the sim is not very good. I have heard people recommend I disable FSUIPC, but that is an absolute non-starter with me. RC requires it, most add-on aircraft requires it, and since I run all my addon software (Topcat, RC, FSC, and FSFK) on my laptop, I need FSUIPC.ASE is very frustrating, and I had it working all right at one point, but something I touched, either a new add on, droping in the uiautomationcore fix, FSUIPC settings, something I did has upset the tempermental beast that is ASE, and now I fear I may just have to chuck it in the trash and go with either an earlier version of Active Sky or go with REXs WX (but it seems they have some issues at the moment.)

In FS9. not FSX, I read that you can run DWC on with Global Mode off. That may have to be set each time. You then use FSUIPC to do weather smoothing if the option does not occur in ASE. I have a topic pinned in the RC forum on AVSIM about this.There is an extensive section about this in the ASE manual about setting it up describing FSUIPC and ASE options.In general in some weather conditions it is not unusual for weather to clear above ceiling heights. Another issue is that missing reporting stations as you progress during climb may cause sudden clear weather if not smoothed in ASE or FSUIPC. In FSUIPC you have both wind and visibility smoothing with cloud layer limits as separate entities.Being an FS9 user I stopped updating AS at version 6.5 and it satisfies my needs. I download the weather archive for the nearest date and UTC for the FS time of flight and run from that. I then load the flight plan into AS and get/print the full report. In AS65 it helps it run better.

In FS9. not FSX, I read that you can run DWC on with Global Mode off. That may have to be set each time. You then use FSUIPC to do weather smoothing if the option does not occur in ASE. I have a topic pinned in the RC forum on AVSIM about this.There is an extensive section about this in the ASE manual about setting it up describing FSUIPC and ASE options.In general in some weather conditions it is not unusual for weather to clear above ceiling heights. Another issue is that missing reporting stations as you progress during climb may cause sudden clear weather if not smoothed in ASE or FSUIPC. In FSUIPC you have both wind and visibility smoothing with cloud layer limits as separate entities.Being an FS9 user I stopped updating AS at version 6.5 and it satisfies my needs. I download the weather archive for the nearest date and UTC for the FS time of flight and run from that. I then load the flight plan into AS and get/print the full report. In AS65 it helps it run better.

I now see that you almost need FSUIPC to stay on to smooth things out, because the last few times I flew ASE w/o FSUIPC and the wind smoothing, any time ASEs weather dropped because of an update or just as a "Crash", the wind shifts were so severe that my JS41 was torn to bits.FYI, the version I have of FSUIPC (4.60a) has no visibility smoothing ability as far as I can tell. Flying in FSX to clarify.