Help..I've searched on this topic but haven't found an answere that works for me..When setting up weather in fs9 I chose advanced weather settings. I put in an overcast cloud layer from say 5000 ft base to 10000 foot tops with 8/8 overcast coverage and cirus, status, cumulas.. it doesn't matter what cloud type I use.The problem is I never get real overcast conditions.. always seems like scattered conditions at best. I'm also on top by 6000 ft (10000) feet selected.I tried tweeking 3d-cloud percentage and cloud coverage density. That helps a little. I'm trying to fly "in the soup" and break out on short final but can't seem to achive the effects like I can in fs2002.I can't even realy fly in the clouds at all.. seems like they become scattered the closer i get to them when it should be solid IFR.Can anyone help? Trying to fly the approach Av8orjb

Work with the "visibility" settings in advance weather settings (one page past the cloud settings)& you'll get solid soup to break out of at your desired altitude. I've set up conditions where I don't see anything until nearly past the VASI lights, or very effective looking breakouts at near decision heights.As to a solid looking overcast, it seems to vary with video cards, along with the visibility setting.L.Adamson

additionally the only way I got the soup and unable to see ground was to turn the bottom slider on the weather setting all the way to the right.NP

True. You need to have the cloud density maxxed out to get realistic clouds. But, you will still not get true, full-on IMC without also tweaking visibility in addition to clouds (as Larry correctly points out).

For a good effect I add a second layer of 8/8 cumulus just above the first one. For example, first layer of 8/8 cumulus base 2,000 tops 4,000 and second layer 8/8 cumulus base 4,010 tops 6,000.David

Well I must say that I think MS really messed this part up. So much for flying the ILS down to Minimums ( in solid IFR with zero visibility) and breaking out at 200 feet above touchdown with 1/4 mile visibility. And to think they go so much right in this version. I can't tell you how much this one small aspect ( to me its a huge aspect) disturbs me. I am very disappointed :( FS2002 got that part right but they lost it here.. I guess that had to leave something out so people will buy FS 2006.

> You must not fly in the right conditions. I fly mostly out of London and frequently have overcast conditions on final to EGLLand EGKK. Sometimes I am in soup down to the deck and have trouble getting off the runway. FS9 does this fine for me.John

>Well I must say that I think MS really messed this part up. >So much for flying the ILS down to Minimums ( in solid IFR>with zero visibility) and breaking out at 200 feet above>touchdown with 1/4 mile visibility. And to think they go so>much right in this version. I can't tell you how much this>one small aspect ( to me its a huge aspect) disturbs me. I am>very disappointed :( FS2002 got that part right but they>lost it here.. I guess that had to leave something out so>people will buy FS 2006.You can easily do what you're requesting. Just set the visibility altitude below your airport altitude & vis at 1/4 mile. In the daytime, you'll see the VASI lights and approach end of the runway at your 200' breakout point, but nothing past 1/4 mile & very little on the sides. It's very effective.............. at least on my two different CPU's. Just experiment. I set a "saved flight" on auto-pilot & then start messing with vis settings.L.Adamson

Try living in Glasgow, Scotland!! Overcast is when we sunbathe!

<>For some reason, 1 mile viz works better for me. due to slant range, if I used a lower value I don't see the runway at DH.And my additional advice is that if you just want to fly around in the clag, minimize the viz as above and set clouds to zero. Doing so will improve your fps substantially and allow the use of more dense AI traffic.For those who want to see clouds during the enroute portion of the flight, set clouds where you want them and then during the initial decent phase, pause the sim (just tell the co-pilot that you need to go the head) and resent the viz and cloud settings as per the above. It just takes a few seconds to do it and when you get back from the john, there you are in IMC.(: