Hi!Just tried to fly inside a cloud without seeing a)the terrain below and :( the sky above...IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE!!I tried thick stratus and cumulus-layers (also overcast-situation) but I could always see the ground or the blue sky out of the VC.Only by reducing the visibility to the minimum I was able to get a situation like being in a cloud.Is anybody able to be really inside a cloud (no visib. at all)? If yes, which weather-settings did you use?Regards,Stefan

Quite strange, I just put the same question a few minutes earlier.Let

Hi, You have to adjust at your weather/display, detailed mode, your clouds draw distant to 100 and clouds percentage to 100%. Expect fps hit with draw distant to 100%.You will still see some hole with the overcast but better then clouds draw distant to 40 mil result.In the fs2004 learning center; weather user using defined weather Clouds specification in flight simunlator, you have to see how the clouds works in fs2004 about all clouds formation and how they will appears which differents, height vs altitude vs coverage and differents condition with rain or not rain, snow etc. There is near 30 clouds type available, they will change all depend on the height vs altitude vs coverage. Do not refer to fs2002 result. The clouds formation in fs2002 was wrong except for the 2d overcast clouds .This overcast is fixed with active sky 2.0 and I am working on fs sky world 2004 which will fixe some things here.ThanksChris Willis[link:fsw.simflight.com/FSWMenuFsSim.html]Clouds And Addons For MsFs

Hi Chris,I want to make it clear right from the start that I am not arguing with you or trying to get in a dispute. The bottom line here is if I want to set WX conditions to manual and want to set overcast clouds and fly IMC I should be able not to see anything outside, not BKN or SCT, just IMC.Also I did 100% on sliders and of course as you mentioned it is a big penalty on the frame rates, but even in that condition still BKN clouds can be noticed and you can see ground contact even is OVC. And overcast is overcast in any type of clouds.It is good news that you did fix the problem with active sky, but unfortunately that does not solve the problem of being able to set it manually and chose your own wx conditions.I have to admit that I used your product and was very happy with it, looking for the new version, by the way when is due?Regards,Alex

I noticed that when parked on the ramp in the rain/snow, There is a dry circle around the A/C. Same issue?

I also notice that when flying recently. I'm always able to see the ground/sky from the ac. I even got rain with few clouds at 9,000 MSL .... :-roll

Hi Alex, For manual setting, You can set overcast with a layers of 15 000 feet. This picture below, from above the clouds with the minist zoom available in fs, (which normaly we don`t use at all and not realistic for flying) almost not noticable the ground, if you are flying in the 2d panel, you should not notice the hole at all, if you don`t use the minest zoom level, the probability to see these hole will be almost not there. There is others things you can do is to use 2 layers of overcast.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/36577.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/36576.jpgThanksChris Willis[link:fsw.simflight.com/FSWMenuFsSim.html]Clouds And Addons For MsFs

Chris,How can I reduce the size of the picture to be able to put it for posting?Meanwhile I will try to install the FS9 on a different machine with a NVIDIA 9800 256 ram to see what kind of results do I get.I do appreciate your help and suggestions. Maybe is the video card? I don

Hi Chris,This is with NVIDIA 9800 256 RAM there is no difference on either machine.What would be your input on this?To be more precise I am looking to set for a non-precision APP with a ceiling of 600 OVC and a vis between 3 to 8 mls visibility. The problem I have is that the OVC is not what I am used to see. Having in view that you have more knowledge than I have maybe it is something I am missing.Regards, Alex

Chris,This is part 2 Regards,Alex