December 28, 200223 yr Hello!I have a problem with the weather in RCv3. I load the weather within FS2002 and get the correct departure weather. But when I arrive, the arrival weather is the same as the departure weather. When I try to descend and reset the altimeter with the b key, it switches to the altimeter of my departure airport. And the weather on the arrival ATIS is exactly similar to that of the departure ATIS.I try to update the weather in the middle of the flight, and before the approach, but to no avail.Can anyone please assist me with this problem?I purchased RCv3 thinking that it was the most detailed standalone ATC program available for FS2002, and I agreed up until I started the approach. I don't know what to think if the program uses incorrect weather.And I don't feel like spending another $35 to purchase something like FSMETEO. If the solution to this problem is to buy FSMETEO, then in reality the manual should list FSMETEO as REQUIRED software instead of OPTIONAL software.Any help is appreciated. Thank you,- Jose
December 28, 200223 yr Commercial Member are you using fs2002 weather?how far is your departure and arrival airports. maybe fs2002 isn't changing the weather correctly.there are several freeware weather programs, that are all probably better than fs2002's weather. i think active sky had a freeware version, it's even on the cd. check it out.i think there was a program called weather center. look for a program called wetter. JD Read my blog
December 29, 200223 yr Hi,I just completed a flight from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh in a CRJ. The departure winds were 260@10 with an altimeter of 29.97. The arrival winds were given to me as 260@10, altimeter 29.97; they should have been 190@5, altimeter 29.95.I used the freeware active sky program that was on the CD for the above flight.My previous flight today was from San Francisco to Cincinnati in a 757, which yielded similar results when arriving. I used default FS2002 weather for that.Jose
December 29, 200223 yr Commercial Member in active sky, are you picking your arrival airport, forcing weather, and setting the force distance to 60 miles?if the answer to all of those is yes, then at 60 miles from the arrival airport, the weather outside the plane will switch to the arrival airport weather, and rc will correctly read that weather JD Read my blog
December 29, 200223 yr Hi, yes I had the following checked, Update Metar on new station, Update FD on new station, and force custom ID at 60 nm, which is the destination airport. I had this configuration for my CVG-PIT flight, to no avail.- Jose
December 29, 200223 yr Commercial Member there is a setting in fsuipc that tells it not to allow weather generators. is that set by any chance?if you don't have specific keyboard, joystick, rudder, hot key settings set in fsuipc, maybe the best thing to do is delete the modulesfsuipc.INI file. let fsuipc regenerate it next time you restart fs200x JD Read my blog
December 29, 200223 yr HiI tried as you requested and did a flight from DuPage to Minneapolis in a Learjet with Activesky. No luck.Jose
January 12, 200323 yr Just an observation. I just flew my first flights (finally) with RCV3. I love the flexibility of the program and ability to change things on the fly (pardon the pun). It was very easy to use and set up. Not near as intimidating as the manual size would indicate.I too had the problem with the same ATIS weather report given for departure and arrival airports. (ATIS did indicate the correct landing runway at the destination airport however
January 12, 200323 yr Commercial Member sounds (no pun intended) that you want a combination of the co-pilot on comms and no auto tune on contact. short answer is no.hand the comms to the co-pilot. sorrythe problem with dual atis's playing, is they both use the same atis frequency.i guess a workaround to this, is at the start of the rc session, go to the controllers page, and change the atis frequency to something different. JD Read my blog
January 13, 200323 yr I get the same thing when tuing ATIS. I just manually deselect the COM freq in FS and listen to RC then switch it back to CD, or Ground when I'm done. Kind of a pain, but it solves the "ATIS Echo".
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