Hello All

I was wondering if there is a way of getting Asky to do this.......

 

After I have downloaded the weather ,I would like to be able to keep the downloaded winds ,but prevent the generation of the clouds or any active weather until I have reached my cruising altitude, this would benefit me when taking of from the more frame rate heavy airports EGLL ,KLAX,EHAM etc as nothing makes these airports even MORE frame hoggy than steaming great thunderstorms or heavy overcast conditions ,rain etc I know this would be a highly unrealistic scenario ,but if it helps with smoother takeoffs at those particular airports then I certainly would not object.

Actually a setting to clear all clouds and weather settings bar wind conditions on approach and landing at these same airports would be a good idea too.

Most other airports I am fine with what ever the weather is at TO or Landing ,its just an option that at these potentially hog monsters that for me would be very useful.

Anyways some thoughts

Andy

 

Hello All

I was wondering if there is a way of getting Asky to do this.......

 

After I have downloaded the weather ,I would like to be able to keep the downloaded winds ,but prevent the generation of the clouds or any active weather until I have reached my cruising altitude, this would benefit me when taking of from the more frame rate heavy airports EGLL ,KLAX,EHAM etc as nothing makes these airports even MORE frame hoggy than steaming great thunderstorms or heavy overcast conditions ,rain etc I know this would be a highly unrealistic scenario ,but if it helped me achieve smoother takeoffs , then I certainly would not object.

Actually a setting to clear all clouds and weather settings bar wind conditions on approach and landing at these same airports would be a good idea too.(for me)

Most other airports I am fine with what ever the weather is at TO or Landing ,its just an option that at these potential hog monsters that for me would be very useful.(again for me anyway)

Anyways some thoughts

Andy

Why not start Activesky once you have reached a 'workable' altitude and use FSUIPC to 'clear weather' if your destination airport is socked in?

In AS you can create your own weather scenario. So during your descent you can start with the current weather , and edit it to remove clouds. Temperature and winds will be the same.

Why not start Activesky once you have reached a 'workable' altitude and use FSUIPC to 'clear weather' if your destination airport is socked in?

 

Yes keep the suggestions coming.

I could try as you say ,but that will mean pausing the etc etc .It would be nice if there were options to this within ASKY itself and performed automatically.

Another thing I could do of course is not use AKSY at these particular airports ,but instead use the default weather scenarios .

Anyways all good suggestions welcome.

Thanks Andy

You can modify the weather preflight in AS65. First I recommend you download an archived weather situation for the local time (as Z time) of your flight and save it. This will give a backup to reload as the weather snapshot if you wish. In this method you can not use the real world weather updates which occur every ten minutes or so as it will wipe out your changes.

 

Load your flight plan and process it. Maybe you'd like to print it all out as it is handy for getting winds/temperatures aloft and ground temperatures for an FMC and flight planner. Now we are going to modify the snapshot file created when you activate a downloaded archive or load a saved archive weather situation.

 

Press the Wxr Configurator button and it will bring up this window:

 

 

 

In this case I fetched the destination METAR for KMSP. It was originally OVC024 as I recall in the editable METAR area. I as illustrated overwrote this with CLR. Note the change in the decoded weather area. In Step 2 I selected KMSP and a range of 40 nm to apply clear skys. I then clicked apply now and that saves it in the default weather snapshot file which will not be modified until you get another archive and save weather or use real world weather.

 

Now do the same for your departure airport. When done if FS is running use the update and close button to apply the change to FS and then close the Wxr Configurator window

 

If you reload and process your flight plan and examine it you see the changed METARS within 40 nm of your airports.

 

Congrats. You just fooled Mother Nature.

 

You must do this before loading your flight into FS and then after your parked flight is loaded in FS use the Refresh button in the AS65 main window and after weather writes are complete to quickly update everything use the Refresh AI button so AI start with the new environment.

 

This method preserves everything except the eliminated cloud cover.

 

Once you have done it a few times it goes pretty fast.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could do this in the real world?? Of course, the absolute best thing would be the traffic zapper function of FSUIPC - now wouldn't that make the morning commute a much more enjoyable experience!!! ^_^

You can modify the weather preflight in AS65. First I recommend you download an archived weather situation for the local time (as Z time) of your flight and save it. This will give a backup to reload as the weather snapshot if you wish. In this method you can not use the real world weather updates which occur every ten minutes or so as it will wipe out your changes.

 

Load your flight plan and process it. Maybe you'd like to print it all out as it is handy for getting winds/temperatures aloft and ground temperatures for an FMC and flight planner. Now we are going to modify the snapshot file created when you activate a downloaded archive or load a saved archive weather situation.

 

Press the Wxr Configurator button and it will bring up this window:

 

 

 

In this case I fetched the destination METAR for KMSP. It was originally OVC024 as I recall in the editable METAR area. I as illustrated overwrote this with CLR. Note the change in the decoded weather area. In Step 2 I selected KMSP and a range of 40 nm to apply clear skys. I then clicked apply now and that saves it in the default weather snapshot file which will not be modified until you get another archive and save weather or use real world weather.

 

Now do the same for your departure airport. When done if FS is running use the update and close button to apply the change to FS and then close the Wxr Configurator window

 

If you reload and process your flight plan and examine it you see the changed METARS within 40 nm of your airports.

 

Congrats. You just fooled Mother Nature.

 

You must do this before loading your flight into FS and then after your parked flight is loaded in FS use the Refresh button in the AS65 main window and after weather writes are complete to quickly update everything use the Refresh AI button so AI start with the new environment.

 

This method preserves everything except the eliminated cloud cover.

 

Once you have done it a few times it goes pretty fast.

 

 

Thanks for your detailed reply . It may take some time to get the old grey matter to take on-board what you are saying. ^_^

Meanwhile I have found that a simple way to achieve my aims (as an earlier poster said) is simply to use the FSUIPC function to clear all weather (either on takeoff or approach) to a weather bound hog port like EGLL ,KLAX etc .

I have found that if you clear all weather, the wind (direction and strength) remain unchanged, I was worried that this may not be the case, and therefore make things awkward when approaching my destination airport with a pre selected runway for landing. So the above method although not really satisfactory ,if needed can be used.

Anyways

Thanks guys for your help.

 

PS Kiwi

I don't want to be able to clear the weather just to make my landings that bit easier ,it just a case that at certain FS9 AIRPORTS I.E the major's and also with some addon airports (I don't have many) that if the weather is bad, lots of cloud,rain effects my sim can get bogged, and my system hogged down in a mire of miserable frame rate glue, So by clearing the weather if needed I can at least not spoil a nice long flight by enduring a stuttery horrible approach and landing.

Fortunately this situation doesn't happen that often.

Cheers Again

A. :Cuppa:

Your main issue seems to be heavy cloud causing poor frame rates.

 

Do you have an AMD/ Radion video card ? These are reported to not deal with clouds too well.

 

I have one of these cards and can improve cloud performance greatly by selecting a different set of cloud textures in Flight Environment. If you don't have the latter product it might be worth you giving it a try. I can fly into all addon scenery big airports in a/c such as PMDG/Level-D etc with heavy cloud and no significant reduction in frame rates.

 

Peter

Windows 7 can help if you are not using it. FS uses the main processor more than it should for rendering graphics instead of using the full capabilities of the graphics card processor. Also best use is made with a separate graphics card, not internal motherboard graphics.

 

Benchmarks published some time ago in Computer Pilot showed improved graphics performance in Win 7 over previous versions. From whatever resources they used an apparent conclusion was formed that the complex math calls used in rendering were trapped by Win 7 and passed to the graphics card processor which is much more adept at handling this. FS doesn't do this like most other 3D graphics heavy apps but Win 7 seems to relieve this bottleneck in rendering objects. This helps with detailed airports, dense ai, and lots of weather objects to render.

Thanks Guys for all your help.

I may have given the wrong impression about my sim experience regarding weather.

I have to say that i am perfectly happy with my present setup and FS performance is absolutely fine ninety percent of the time .Its just occasionally that i will experience problems ,and that is usually at an addon airport with very poor weather conditions .

I certainly cannot afford or even want to change from windows XP its a good OS, FS runs well with it ,and for all my other internet uses (non gamer by the way) it does what I want ,is reliable and stable.

NOW!

i have by accident discovered a way of making ASKy do what i want .

This how I do it if I want to clear weather from a frame hog airport.

I download or use an archived weather within ASKy ,I then get ASKy to refresh the weather ,I then clear that weather using FSUIPC. In my settings within ASKy I have it set to NOT refresh below twenty thousand feet, using this setup I can get a nice clear takeoff (thus helping frames and smoothness) then when I reach twenty thousand plus Asky will kick in and refresh automatically and I am back to 'normal' weather settings at cruise and beyond.

I won't always have to do this ,but its nice to know I can .

Thanks again for your time and ideas.

Andy