Hello,I'm using the latest build of RC3.01 with Activesky WXRE 1.7. RC3 correctly reads the current surface ATIS at my destination but the tower controller reads the wind at the aircrafts current altitude rather than that of the surface. I have verified that this will happen on every RC3.01 flight I make. This happens only on landing approach. Takeoff winds and surface winds in Activesky are the same, so that is not a problem. So ATIS working great, Tower not so great :)

let me see if i understandyou get arrival weather somewhere outside approach airspace, and you get the correct wind speed and direction according to what active sky is reporting?you contact approach, and start your approach. if you get weather here, are the winds correct?you're handed off from approach to tower, and when tower gives your the winds as part of it's landing clearance, they are not correct?it would seem if tower is not reporting the correct winds, active sky hasn't updated the weather with the local weather.what is your update interval in activesky?if you do a "wind check" on tower freq, do you get the right winds?jd

Hi JD,Instance One, flight from KDFW to KSAF (Santa Fe, NM): (ZAB Center provides appch/dptr service to KSAF)Center advises me to call the approach type, I request visual and center hands me off to KSAF Tower. Before this point I have tuned KSAF ATIS and RC3/Activesky gives correct surface winds and altimeter. Upon handoff to KSAF tower, tower controller clears me to land and reports winds at my current altitude rather than surface. I am approximately 10 miles from airfield at handoff to tower. Instance Two, flight from KDFW to KMAF (Midland, TX):After requesting a visual from Midland approach at destination, the controller hands me off to tower about 15 miles out. Tower clears me to land and again reports wind at my altitude rather than surface. KMAF ATIS correctly reported wind at surface, however. I have Activesky updating METARS at 5 minute intervals in online mode, Winds aloft set to update on new station, forced winds update disabled at destination, TAF processing enabled, destination force set at 60 miles, FSIUPC settings to standard Activesky recommendations. I will try a 'wind check' at my landing destination and report back as to the results.Any additonal info I can provide, please let me know.

wouldn't you want to enable forced winds update at destination?

Hi John,I thought disabling forced wind updates with Activesky made it easier for Radar Contact to retrieve accurate surface winds, ostensibly the winds would change less and be more predictable? Am I wrong about this?Thanks.

i have my disable forced wind updates UNchecked.remember, the correct winds from the arrival weather are relayed to rc in a "under the covers" method.try unchecking the disable, and see if the winds are correctly given

Excusing me for chipping in, but this is something I have been wondering about for some time. I use FS Meteo and get the same discrepancies between weather from ATIS and from Tower.The locking of weather data in FS Meteo and ActiveSky can ensure that the weather doesn't change from a certain point in time, but the problem isn't that the weather changes during the time spent on approach. What seems to be going on is that ATIS gives you surface winds while Tower gives you winds aloft.Assuming that the winds Tower gives me are supposed to be the ones at the airport, and therfore identical to the ones reported by ATIS, why doesn't RC simply use the same data for both?

i looked at it last night, and i'm using surface winds when tower gives you the winds.i'll look at it againjd

i have something for you to try, can you send me an email at [email protected]