Hi.I am trying to set my visibility to 30nm in FS9 by default, as I think this is more realistic,and as a nice side addition it seems to make the ground textures etc look so much better,and again, more realistic, but I just don't seem to be able to do this,I have seen the screen shots from others and they look great.I have heard that you can either set it in FS9,or registered versions of FSUIPC, but I have looked in there and there is all this 1/1000th of a mile stuff etc, it's all very confusing and I just don't know how to do it.can anyone help please.thank youSteve.

The easiest way to do this is to save these settings in your world weather in your default start up mode. That way the settings are there automatically everytime you start up. If you do real weather then FSUIPC is a great tool for putting parameters around the weather that you download.Lee

It's simple enough in FSUIPC1: Open the FSUIPC.ini fileMaximumVisibilityFewClouds=3000MaximumVisibility=2000MaximumVisibilityOvercast=2000MaximumVisibilityRainy=300Launch the sim and then open the fsuipc menu and make sure the visibility box is checked. Done.If you can't follow that then try the manual, it's got lengthy explanations for everything that FSUIPC does. The actual measurement is in 100ths of a mile, not 1,000ths. Knock off two noughts for the visibility in miles. 30-0-0 = 30 miles, 2-0-0 = 2 miles. How could it be easier?What you can also do is create a ground visibility layer then have a graduated visibility above that going to a set altitude. Or you can use the visibility layer to map to the base of the lowest cloud level. That works even better at giving good frame rates close to the ground when the autogen is visible but the horizon distance is low (typically in real life, the horizon is only visible to about 18-20 miles at ground level anyway, so it's pretty pointless to have 60 mile visibility when you can't see it). Change the settings above to :MaximumVisibility=1500MaximumVisibilityOvercast=800Then tick the graduated visibility layer opposite the visibility settings in the FSUIPC menu, set base layer to 3,000 feet top layer to the highest you typically fly (say 12,000 feet for piston GA, 20,000 for light twins and feeder liners) and graduate the visibility as you go higher. Works well. Allcott

thanks both, got it nowSteve