Hello, I am running version 3.2 but Ive had this issue since I have purchased the product. Didnt think too much of it but now its starting to bug me whether I have something inconfigured correctly. I am never able to Get the upper or lower atmospherinc conditions. It always says no data available for those two.  Thank you for any help with this issue.

Hi Kacper

 

Recommended Settings and Practice ...

 

Upgrade to the latest Release or Beta Version.

Set all Defaults in all weather dialogs. *

Specify your Destination.

Specify your Max Cruise Altitude. **

Update the Weather. ***

Check the Weather ****

 

* This should enable the Adjust Options Automatically and the Adjust Sim Friendly options in the Weather dialog.

 

** If you specify a Cruise Altitude of 6000 feet or more the LWE will download and process the GRIB forecast data from NOAA.

 

*** If GRIB data is downloaded then the Opus Upper Atmosphere Report will be automatically displayed showing the progress of your GRIB data download and processing. If you have specified Background GRIB Processing in the Downloads dialog then the GRIB data extraction and lengthy decoding will proceed at a slower pace and can take several minutes. Otherwise the processing will be done as fast as possible at the expense of FSX performance or frame rates. The GRIB data is only downloaded once before flight and the decoded data will be valid all day or at least for nine hours so this is normally not a concern or problem. However, most user need GRIB data for flight planning and preparation.

 

**** Before flight you should get into the habit of checking the weather. At the very least display and check the Opus Local, Lower, Upper, and Destination Weather reports. You may also like to examine the various Opus text reports accessed via the FSX Addon menu. There are separate reports showing the downloaded METARs, all the GRIB wind and temperature targets from 4000 feet up to FL540, all the en route weather for any specified flight plan including TAFs if you have enabled them, and finally an easy reference to all relevant SIDs and STARs. This report gives a handy direction and bearing for each listed SID and STAR.

 

The Opus weather reports (e.g. The Destination Weather) should be checked during climb and descent to monitor all wind and temperature targets, compared with the actual FSX ambient conditions. This way you will know that your sim is operating as expected.

 

Never disable weather updates, FSX will NOT cope on its own it simply cannot contain all the necessary data.

 

Test Weather Reports, located in the OpusFSX\Themes folder and accessed via the FSX Addon menu ...

 

OpusWeather.txt ... The downloaded METARs

OpusWeatherReport.txt ... The GRIB data report

OpusFlightReport.txt ... The flight plan en route weather report

OpusSIDSTARReport.txt ... The relevant SIDs and STARs

 

Live Weather Assistant (LWA) and Weather Map data ...

 

Surface QNH

Surface Winds

Surface Temperatures

Surface Visibility

Cruise Level Winds

Cruise Level Temperatures

Precipitation

Lower Level Cloud Cover

Met Station Cover

 

The LWA and up to six weather maps can be displayed on the server or a networked client.

 

Stephen :-)

 

That should help.

 

Remember ... Cruise Altitudes of 6000 feet or more means GRIB data (upper wind and temp forecast data and reports).

 

Stephen

 

If you are still not clear about something just ask and Cheryl or I will be pleased to help.

 

Stephen

Thank you for your detailed response, I am midflight now, and I did what you asked by resetting all settings to default, setting destination, max cruise altitude. I never changed that field and it always has been 41000 if I recall correctly. I updated the weather and still nothing. Do I have to restart fsx for this?

Before flying.

 

Delete your OpusFSX\GRIB folder contents except for the degrib.exe.

 

It will also help to Disable Weather Update on Startup for now.

 

Now when sat on the ground, open the main Spy window, do the above actions and after clicking on Update, monitor what it says in the Spy window also what it reports in the automatically displayed Upper Weather report window, displayed automatically on your FSX screen.

 

When the GRIB is downloaded, extracted, and decoded the METARs will be downloaded, then after the weather is updated and the weather map data created, the Upper report should show the upper wind and temp targets.

 

Let me know what it says. Do not go flying until you have verified you have all the weather, including GRIB if you are expecting it.

 

Stephen

 

Have you set all the above recommended options?

 

Adjust Options Automatically and Adjust Sim Friendly GRIB options for instance.

 

Stephen