Andr

Yes it's amazing the difference, we have almost the same set of tools indeed only i'm running also UT which is stunning (3d road street lights ) :-)It feels almost like FSX ;-) Andr

I run UT, but Ultimate Traffic, not Ultimate Terrain, which I assume is what you mean. I allocated 50GBs partition for FS9 and it has about 4 GBs left, so I am thinking of living with what I've got - do a bit more flying and a bit less tweaking!M.

Fantastic tip - we learn something every day.

>I allocated 50GBs partition for FS9 and it has about 4 GBs left, Heheh. I hear you Martin. When I re-did my computer a few months ago, I made sure to give FS a big partition: 120 gigs. At least I *thought* it was big enough. So far it has been. I hope it's big enough, once FSX arrives.Rhett

In fact, I run FS on a laptop - a Dell XPS Gen2, which still, a year after buying it has a reasonably impressibe spec (the best is the 17" 1920x1200 screen high def - everything else looks decidedly 'snowy' after this! Even today I hardly ever see laptops advertsiedwith a screen this good).I've 'omly' got 100GB though: I thought 50 GB would be OK. It's the FS Genesis mesh (24GBs) that take up the space - I might have to ditch 'My Documents' at some stage and turn the whole laptop over to FS9!M.

>I should have waited a few days ->I always end up paying for my impatience!!That may be true, but in this case, I don't think you've wasted any money. I bought ActiveSky about a year ago and it's so far the best add-on money I've ever spent!

I'm still here at 1.30 am getting experimenting with AS.. I agree, it's a purchase I'm not going to regret. Haven't really understood how to do everything yet, but I've only had it a day...Must go to bed!M. ;-)

Darryl,Don't know if you are subscribed to this thread or will pick up this reply, but I at last got round to going through your explanation of how to make this work in FS9 itself, and I am frankly amazed, and appalled: appalled that I have had FS9 since it was issued and had never investigated how to set weather stations like this!I just flew from Edinburgh to Stornaway (EGPH to EGPO), setting fair weather at the former and overcast, rainy weather at the latter. The time was early evening.... As I crossed the threshhold between the two stations I had set, the cloud suddenly rolled in:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/martinlest/Cloud.jpgReally very impressive. I need to tweak things a bit more so that I don't get sudden changes in visibility, but I can do that OK.I have spent the last two days wrestling with Active Sky: it is really, for my purposes, a sledgehammer to crack a nut - although Jim's 'after sales service' is so good, thus far, that I will certainly carry on with it and see what other weather features I can benefit from. Otherwise, I'd be very happy to use FS9's own system. The only problem I get is a very large number of 'Flight Simulator has encountered a problem and must close' messages when trying to set the weather stations - no idea why: I uninstalled AS6 temporarily.Anyway, thanks for the little tutorial. A bit of a revelation: I wonder what other FS9 marvels I am missing!!Martin