Thanks all, to address some points:@vilk: Don't be so shy!@garwig2: It runs first, creates the scenery, then quits.@PC509: If you have a real-wx addon like ASV6, local metar strings should already reflect haze in the area and in my testing in Florida a few weeks ago, the effect was very convincing...

> A few days ago, that Sedona fire was tremendous.Thats putting it mildly... :-) Just downloaded FS-Blaze...We were in Sedona the first day of the fire in our 26' Motorhome. We were on a trip home from Rockford IL where we went to my Grandson's wedding. With my Laptop on board, each time we stopped, I'd check out the nearest airfield, and fly the route we'd taken from the previous stop. My laptop connects to the 20" LCD TV screen for my Monitor, its great for the Flight Sim.Making it a leisurly trip home, travelling about 100-200 miles a day, we were stopping at various campgrounds along the way for a few days. Went through "The Garden of the God's" National Park for the first time, camping in Garden of the Gods campground... Then on south to Route 40, stopping in Santa Fe, then down NM 14 through coal mining & gold mining towns for three days.Heading through Flagstaff, we went down Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona. I'd never take that road with anything larger than a 26ft motorhome. We just stopping at viewpoints along Oak Creek, and planning to camp in campgrounds around Oak Creek. TO stop in various National Park campgrounds or do some "dispersed camping" in the National Park when the fire started. We were told to move on, the National Park grounds were closed... Wished I'd had this program installed then. Everything smelled of smoke, and the sky was filled with it, but we were too deep down in the trees to see the fire itself. Like they say, we "coulnt see the Forest, for the trees." You can only see what is immediately around you, and nothing past the skyline of trees. We have the 20" TV in the MH, connected to an automatic SAT antenna that locks on Dish TV. SO we stopped in Sedona for an hour, to watch the NEWS, and that was close enough! We fired up the Motorhome and headed south. We went to Page Springs in Cottonwood, which empties into Oak Creek, and stayed there for three days instead. Then headed south on 17 to Route 10, east to the Colorado River, where we stayed another few days. Then headed to Desert Hot Springs campground near Palm Springs. It was Hot and Dry as we soaked in the Mineral Springs and the Olympic Pool filled from the overflow of the Springs. The water is changed 17 times a day in the Pool, and always sparkling clean. So in spite of the temp there, we were comfortable. In the MH we kept the air conditioner on. Then headed home to KFUL in Fullerton, CA where we live...This was our first trip that far in the Motorhome, over 4700 miles round trip, quite a difference from the backpacking trips we used to take in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, and up to the Continental Divide in Colorado. We enjoyed it so much, we are selling our home to live in the Motorhome full time. Thanks to the Laptop, I can take my Flight Sim with me, everywhere we go.

Visibility was horrible, all down Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona. We didn't even see the sky until we got close to Sedona. Once we got close to Sedona the sky to the south was clear.

Ron & Scott,Thanks for another amazing addition to the FS9 world. This will take a permenant spot on my HD along with your other FS-Freeflow and FSX titles.[p class=dcmessage] BradKELP/KBIF http://home.elp.rr.com/bmbanister/BannerSig_BMBanister.jpgAMD Athlon XP 2600, Asus A7V600, 1GB PC3200, NVidia GeForce 6800, SB Audigy2

Very cool idea, going to get it when I get on my home machine. I live in Flagstaff, we've gotten a little rain the last couple of days. They closed the whole of the Coconino Nat'l Forest last Friday, even the area lakes. There went my fishing plans for my days off.BF

Scott,That's just too cool....LOL. I used it tonight and there was a fire in the valley (I think around/south of the Pasadena area) while on approach to LAX. CDF better get cracking and help out the LAFD on that one...rofl.Great job to you and Ron. :-beerchug This has to be the cleverest add-on I've seen yet.

Just got around to trying this tonight. Great job, it works very well. Thanks a lot to Scott and the rest.Jim

Hi Scott,Is it possible that you can get things to work with out of date NOAA files? Each file is saved from NOAA, but the only way to access it would be to form the .txt file. Example: I have the Jun30 data saved but I can only acccess the current NOAA data using the Current Option. The archived option will only look for a .txt file.Hope this helps,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development Team Active Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/AirSource Member: http://www.air-source.us/FSEconomy Member:http://dot.kelder.net:8080/fseconomy/

I can do that Jim. I had tried to build a historical option into the retrieve, but it turns out that NOAA keeps a very random and small sampling of data on their FTP. Saving the downloaded files as text in their own folder would be easy - it's on the list for the next build!In meantime, you can visit the FTP site: ftp://gp16.ssd.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/HMS/ and save the hms(yyyymmdd).txt file manually - I see June 30 is still online...Great suggestion, thanks!sg

Hi Scott,The link is good! I really wasn't looking for for a retrieve from a NOAA archive, just from my local machine. I am sure you will work something out!Hope this helps,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development Team Active Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/AirSource Member: http://www.air-source.us/FSEconomy Member:http://dot.kelder.net:8080/fseconomy/

I cant get FS Blaze to run! Ive installed 3 version of the .Net framework, and it doesnt work with any of them!!

What's the error you're getting Dave? There's a link to .NET 2.0 in the FS-Blaze.doc file...you've tried that one? Feel free to email me directly...

I installed 2.0, and rebooted, but it still gives me this:"To run this application, you must first install one of the following versions of the .NET framework:v2.0.50727Contact your application publisher for instructions about obtaining the appropriate version of the .NET framework."Im re-downloading .NET 2.0 and also downloading MSXML and will try again...

Hi Dave,Uninstall all .NET versions, reboot, and then install one version. Give that a go!Hope this helps,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development Team Active Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/AirSource Member: http://www.air-source.us/FSEconomy Member:http://dot.kelder.net:8080/fseconomy/

Also, make sure you're downloading .NET 2.0 full, not .NET Compact framework. They are two different things...