I am using FSmeteo and the latest version of FSUIPCI keep getting repetetive altimeter chacks about 3 seconds apart.For example AC001 altimeter 3094 then 3 seconds later AC001 altimeter 3096, the alt 3095 ?Don't recall getting this in RCv2.2 ??John

Hi JohnThat's 'normal' I'm afraid.To explain - sometimes the mets used by FSMeteo seem to have some quite large pressure changes between reporting stations (maybe someone wrote a figure wrong)FSMeteo or FSUIPC then smooth this change into a set of small changes.RC is set up so that the ever alert controllers will advise you of pressure chenges (quite correctly).Result - at times you get these repetitive calls :-(One point - are you sure it went 3094, 3096, 3095. It would usually go steadily in one direction (up or down). I've never seen them bounce up and down like that.All the best,John

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John,I am a beta tester and they drove me nuts too. One solution is to go into your fsuipc setting and change the setting for smoothing pressure changes to no.That will help...Larry

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should that be better served by utilizing the setting within FSMeteo??I have never had a clear understanding of the interaction between FSUIPC and FSMeteo. I know they are independent but are often used together by many users, I would like to see some tutorial about using them together!Something is very screwy with my setup on this. I can sit on the taxiway with FS2k2, FSUIPC and FSmeteo running (all defualt settings) and watch the sky change from overcast to various shades of bkn to clear and back again over a just a few minutes (1-3). I will most likely uninstall FSMeteo once I get RC3, I can only imagine the nightmare that awaits if I dont (winds, alt settings, ect..)

>That's 'normal' I'm afraid. I'm glad you put that sentence in quotation marks :-)>To explain - sometimes the mets used by FSMeteo seem to have >some quite large pressure changes between reporting stations >(maybe someone wrote a figure wrong) It doesn't really matter why there are different pressures. Even when the data is correct, the difference between two stations can be large enough that a smoothed-out pressure change goes through several steps.>FSMeteo or FSUIPC then smooth this change into a set of >small changes. >>RC is set up so that the ever alert controllers will advise >you of pressure chenges (quite correctly). There are two possible reasons for a pressure change:1. Meteorological changes, causing new METAR data to be collected by FS Meteo, i.e. the pressure a the station changes.2. The aircraft moves into another reporting station's "range".Only in the first case would the controller advise of the new pressure setting in real life, I suppose.FS Meteo collects absolute data from the METAR stations in the neighborhood. This effectively means that the simulated atmosphere is divided into a large number of regions with individual pressure values. In real life, the pressure between stations is usually somewhere between the station values, but this is not modelled by FS Meteo/FSUIPC, causing unrealistic "jumps" in pressure when moving from on METAR "region" to another. The result is that the altimeter occasionally jumps in an unrealistic way.To overcome this, FSUIPC can be set up to smooth the pressure changes over time. While not perfect, it's an improvement.Now, the problem is that the RC3 controller acts according to what the pressure is outside the aircraft, not what it is where he "sits". Therefore, he "thinks" that the meteorological conditions change all the time and announces this.To get it 100% right would take some serious thinking by the authors of FS Meteo, FSUIPC, and RC3:1. The simulated pressure at any spot on the planet should be averaged between the surrounding reporting stations. This would allow smooth pressure changes caused by the movement of the aircraft to be independent of the time factor. The pressure would change faster in a faster aircraft.2. Each RC3 controller would have to base his announcements on data from a specific weather station, not on the pressure at the aircraft's current location. For this to happen, FS Meteo would have to somehow make the data avaiable to RC and RC would need to know how to look up the correct station.