OK, I know you've heard all this before, but here goes. I get very erratic winds aloft fluxuations if I enable them in FSX. I now run FSX with the weather deactivated, i.e., clear skies, no winds aloft, no real weather updates, nothing!All I use is "Open Clouds" WITHOUT the winds aloft activated,because the same thing happens when I attempt to use those winds too. I keep hearing about how FSUIPC sometimes works, inherent bugs in FSX dlls, clean installs of FSX, this addon and that addon, but as usual, nobody seems to agree on anything. Many of the posts I've read, are a few years old and some of those people were still using FS9. So, without trying to sell me something, has anyone been able to find a real solution to this problem or at least something that minimizes it? Thanks.Pete Locascio

Pete, you have asked a question with your own answer that cannot be achieved in FSX. I get very accurate winds aloft with Active Sky Environment which is payware and I use FSUIPC (registered) to curb FSX problems. I don't know any other way to respond to your post. If you want to be cheap than you are going to endure the terrible FSX weather engine. BTW, I don't snowboard but have been an active skier for over 30 years still do if my knees will hold up. Ski Vail for some great fun. Bob

Ditto bob. You want realistic weather you cant use the FSX engine. ASE coupled with FSUIPC will give you great results 90% of the time.

Pete, you have asked a question with your own answer that cannot be achieved in FSX. I get very accurate winds aloft with Active Sky Environment which is payware and I use FSUIPC (registered) to curb FSX problems. I don't know any other way to respond to your post. If you want to be cheap than you are going to endure the terrible FSX weather engine. BTW, I don't snowboard but have been an active skier for over 30 years still do if my knees will hold up. Ski Vail for some great fun. Bob

I'ts not that I want to be cheap. I just don't want to waste money on something that doesn't help. Thanks for your reply, though. By the way, skiing is for sissys. Learn to shred dude!Pete

Try FSRealWX weather. It has options to fix the wind issues, and it's free. I've been using it for months now, using simconnect from a remote machine.

At the risk of sounding completely ignorant, what is simconnect and how does it work?