http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...mesg_id=3&page=i would really appreciate some feedback.do you know of an easier way?thanks all!vilk

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Vilk,Are you looking to save weather conditions specifically with a flight, or just save weather? If it's the latter, visit http://www.bearsoft.de and download GetWeather. Archives Jeppesson's weather data for later use with any flight, and allows you to add comments. Should be able to load the flight, have get weather running with the weather set selected, click 'download real weather' in FS9, GetWeather intercepts the call, and sends your saved weather to FS9 instead. Since it's a free util, should be fine to use with 'the exchange'...problem solved?Best,sg

gridley, friend, thanks for your help... downloaded, installed, took it off... i think it's a great utility, but i'm afraid it's not doing what needs to be done. :)as far as i can see, in order to use the stored weather, people would need access to a running getweather server. the format of the stored weather file is incompatible with fs2004 if you try to access it directly and the weather data can only be imported using getweather. correct me if i'm wrong.my idea is to store a simple flt/wx pair in the native fs2004 format. native format would mean a simple double click on the flt file, with no add-ons required. or dumping it straight into your "select a flight" list.so far my method requires changing one "3" in the saved flt file to a "0". as easy as that.could i ask you a small favor? download the two "gateway to africa" zips (actually, one split in two because of upload size limitations) and let me know if it works. will take you less than a minute. thanks in advance.yours as usual,vilk

No server at all! Best part. The GetWeather program downloads the weather from MS/Jeppesson - FS's own server. It has an archive mode, in which you can then save the weather to a folder with any filename you want (maybe not that part - i forget), with any text description you want. You can then zip that up, and include it with your flt. The user needs to have GetWeather installed, and then unzips your weather files that came along with the flight into the getweather directory. Upon starting GetWeather, the user selects that weather file in getweather. Start FS, load the flight, go to the FS weather menu, click 'get real weather' and GetWeather feeds the saved archived weather to FS9 - the computer doesn't even need internet access at that point. Clever stuff.Your method should be faster, but if the weather is not always the same maybe the above could do it for you...I'll download the gateway to africa files, but I won't have access to a PC with FS until this evening EST...happy to post back then!Best,sg

:)what you described here is the operation of a server. :) everybody must have getweather installed and getweather serves stored weather to fs9 fooling the built-in fs9 real-weather client into thinking it's connecting to the live jeppesen server. this is also what the getweather manual says about the program. you got it absolutely right and i wouldn't even dream of contradicting it.in my model, you download the attachment from a post in the dream flights forum and you double-click on it. that's it. no add-ons, no copying of files, no running getweather servers (edit out the "server", still holds :)). the weather file is the native fs9 format and the flt/wx pair conforms to the native fs9 interface. additional benefit: you may always switch to jeppesen in mid-flight and no usurper will dump last week's weather on you. :)thanks for your help debugging the method!vilkps. you wouldn't recognize our 150 these days. i'm still at it! :D

Sorry to complicate things! Just wanted to do GetWeather justice - it's a nice utility - fabulous way to archive real-world weather. A server by any other name...is a server. ;)I thought the problem was that the weather from flt/wx was not necessarily displayed properly when loaded later - I've got the africa files - I'll let you know how it goes tonight!Best,sg

thanks for your help!i just downloaded the files from my own post myself and opened the flight in my "other" installation of fs9. magic! worked without a glitch. kept the exact same weather.which means we probably got it right... enjoy! :Dps.for those who follow this thread... it's easy:1. fly wherever you want, in real-time weather2. when you see some particularly spectacular moment--time, season, location, weather--just hit the semicolon in mid-air and give the flight a name3. later, go to your "flight simulator files" folder, find the flight: there will be two files with the same name you gave your flight4. open the flt file, find the weathertype parameter and set it to zero, save the flt filefrom now on the flight will always load the same great weather you wanted to immortalize. it will start in the same point in space and time where you hit the semicolon. and if you upload the files to the dream flights forum on avsim, others will be able to share your experience with a simple click of the mouse.