Hi, I am condidering purchasing a weather program for FS9.Need some unbiased comments / suggestions on programs available.My main concern is ease of installation. I don't have much desireto spend considerable time tweaking it to get it to run. I don't mind doing some work...just not a lot. Thanks, Dave

I cannot strongly enough recommend ActiveSky to you. It is absolutely wonderful and has really improved my overall sim experience. Their product support is beyond compare as well. I am not affiliated with them, I just really like their product.KP

I second that. ActiveSky is astonishingly good at rendering the environment outside the window.It is worth reading the manual and taking some time to set it up for the way you and your computer like it. But, once that is done, each time you use the program thereafter, it needs just a few clicks to get it going, and once going can be forgotten about.Can't recomment it enough.Martin

I start Activesky and leave it alone. No matter how many times I exit and run FS9.I always get current weather no matter where I position my Aircraft.I don't sit and tweak Activesky to make my FS9 look in a particular way.The only thing I want and I have not figured out is how to tune into a ATIS in another location (other than the one I am in at). Maybe its the manual I have not read. :)Manny

OK....Thanks guys. I will take a look at it.

activesky great program great support keith

Dakotafan,I second the last answer. And "I second that" the replies of KP, Martin and Manny. ASv6 is the best weatherproduct, easy to install, best support I have ever seen from commercial vendors. Regards,Jeroen van SchoneveldVelserbroekThe Netherlandshttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/800driver.jpghttp://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/asv6-banner-proud.jpgASUS A8N-SLI, AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2,4 Ghz) San Diego processor, 2Gb DDR 400 Mhz Corsair Mem, ASUS V6800 PCIE Ultra 256 MB video

I'll pop in and add another cheer for Activesky 6 (www.hifisim.com). I can't fly without it now. It also provides textures for clouds and other things, that may allow for better performance also.I think after you do get it, you will WANT to tinker with all the settings. If not, it'll work without touching a thing! Add to that one of the best support teams for any FS product and thats a good combination.[hr color=#000000][table border=0" width="98%" id="table1" height="4" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2][td width=500]Jason[br /]General Aviation Fan[br][/b]P4 3.2Ghz, 1GB Ram, FX5900 128MB, XP SP2.[br /][br /]

Another round of cheers for Active Sky 6!One of the features I find of great use is downloading archived weather. I live in the US but I am frequently flying Europe right now. I download the archived flight universal time for the appropriate FS universal time since time of day influences weather. Since AS models thermals and the sun's heat affects several aspects (such as encouraging TRWs and dispersing ground fog) this is important to me.

I can recommend these:1) Wetter2004Generates random weather for a region, but lets FS9 control the weather and has no built-in weather engine; great for quick random weather situations.2) WeatherMakerI use it to create my own weather and for random offline weather generation; works a little different from Wetter2004 and has its own weather control engine.3) Active Sky VOn- and offline weather, can theoretically be used for setting specific situations via a manual METAR input, but its primary use is online weather and downloaded offline weather data.That is, if you want offline random weather, ActiveSky would not serve you well, but it shines in all other areas.I have them all and regularily use all of them. Different programs for different uses.Andreas

I'm with the others, Active Sky 6, start it and let it run, works great and super support!! It also has great environment textures so no need for any others, free or pay.Regards, MichaelKDFWhttp://www.calvirair.com/mcpics/mcdcvabanner.jpgCalVirAir International

Without doubt ActiveSky.It is one of the absolute *must have* Flight Sim add-on utilities.

FSMetar for me. Simple install, easy to use, good weather, and it's free.http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/fsmetar/

Agreed, FSMetar works, its free and best of all it's bug free..Don't forget: http://www.fsmeteo.com/

can you please tell me with fsmetar the weather appears right away like the default FS weather or gradually.rgds