here's something I have never seen with FS9: side wind component in AI aircraft (90 miles from 274 degrees at FL340 over Greece)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/167674.jpg==Marten:Weber==P-D920 3.3MHz 2GB RAM WinXP ATI X1900+1024MB 2xSATA250 2xVIEWSONIC 19"author of http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?FileName=bbgrfs.zipscreens on http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r45/abulaafia/

Thats what `Download Winds Aloft` is for! Active Sky makes a much better fist of upper level winds.Allcott

Use Active sky and it happens in FS9.

I saw it in the default FS2004 several times last week during the MSFS Around the World Race.Heck, for one takeoff from an airport with an altitude over 10,000 ft, I was getting sideways contrails less than 100 ft AGL.