I am using ASE. I have download weather automatically checked for years. I am thinking about unchecking it so I don't get stutters during injection. I also think it may be crashing the sim on occasion. Whether that is the case, I don't know but I'd like to rule it out as an possibility. The crashes I get (very occasional) can not be reproduced so troubleshooting is pretty difficult.Anyway, when I uncheck it do I just click refresh at the beginning of the flight and then ASE downloads the current worldwide weather?I'm fine with a snapshot of worldwide weather rather than dynamic weather as long as I will get weather depiction worldwide (including ASE created weather in the middle of the ocean).Other than a snapshot vs dynamic, are there any other drawbacks to downloading weather once at the beginning of the flight?

Good question, I would also like to know this.-Travis

I just unchecked it and did a flight (same flight I got a crash on earlier). It injects weather at the beginning of the flight and that is it. Since it was a short flight, I don't know what I would get on a transcontinental flight or a flight that goes over areas without weather stations.