HELLO...My skies have turned grey and overcast.When using REAL WORLD WEATHER or REAL WORLD UPDATES or even a clear sky weather theme in USER DEFINED WEATHER i have overcast and grey skies. Anyone experieced the same?. Hope to get back to real weather or at least sunny skies..Thanks..T.H..Canada

Hi,What you are experiencing is Microsoft's 10 mile or less visibility bug in which visibility haze mutates unrealistically into an inpenetrable overcast. If real-world weather reports visiblity of 10 miles or less, viola, you've got an overcast sky even when it's supposed to be clear. Irritating huh?Part of the problem is that some weather surface reports simply indicate visibility of 10 statute miles or greater. In the real world this means that visibilility is at least 10 statute miles but the maximum visibility is truncated and unspecified. Microsoft's real-world weather interprets this report as simply specifying a 10 mile visibility - no more, no less. Then the 10 mile or less visibility bug commences and you get an overcast sky. From my experience, military ICAO format weather reports that use a standard 10SM or greater visibility measurement in their METAR surface reports (these are used my Microsoft's real weather as well as civilian METARS), cause the most headaches. If you use real weather at most military bases here in the USA, you'll almost always get an overcast sky because of the aforementioned problems. For example, where I live in Salt Lake City, I get clear skies with real world weather if clear skies are being reported in the surface METAR at Salt Lake International (KSLC). But if I start off a flight at nearby Hill Air Force Base, the METAR being read by Flight Simulator will pick up the 10SM visibility standard right off and I'll get an overcast, even if the skies are clear in the real world. I hope at least some of this makes sense :)Solution: Try an external weather program such as Activesky or FSMeteo, along with the registered version of FSUIPC to add more control to surface visibility. To be honest there is no perfect solution to the problem though, only workarounds. With FSUPIC you can keep the visibility from falling below 11 miles and thus circumvent the problem altogether, but only in conjunction with an external weather add-on like Activesky or FSMeteo. It won't work with FS2004's built in real world weather in this regard.

Thanks for the reply Dianne..Yes, you pretty well described my problem and your explanation makes sense. I will try an external weather program and hopefully that will ease the pain..Thanks again..T.H....CANADA

>Thanks for the reply Dianne..Yes, you pretty well described>my problem and your explanation makes sense. I will try an>external weather program and hopefully that will ease the>pain..Thanks again..T.H....CANADASo what setting is used within FSUIPC to cure this please? I am suffering with this grey sky problem and its annoying !thanksGraham