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With the release a few days ago of UK2000's version of Guernsey in the Channel Islands comes the sad news that no more new airports will be made by them for FS9. I was rather hoping that Bournemouth and Southampton airports would be made for FS9 as I was so looking forward to them. However, Soarfly at https://www.soarflyconcepts.com/ are reported to be making an FS9 version of Southampton for release sometime this year and they have two lovely other airfields for us - Alderney, in the Channel Islands, and Sandown, in the Isle of Wight. Soarfly are worth taking a look at. David

I had a look at their website as well as a few reviews. I download weather metars from an aviation wx website and plug these into the sim manually. To be honest I couldn't see from the FSGRW screenshots any significant difference from what I am already achieving. But FSGRW does have the advantage of saving time by doing all the wx settings for you if you wish to buy the software and fly with up to date weather settings. Dijvid

Let me know how you get on. I'm going to try a long flight tonight with heavier weather to see what happens then. So far I have only done short tests. Dijvid

Skywatcher - I've noticed a line in the FS9.cfg file which is "CLOUD_COVERAGE_DENSITY=8". 8 seems to be a default value and from what I have now read elsewhere most people who have played around with this reckon that the maximum value you can set here is 12. With 8 as the value I would get gaps in the cloud coverage where more clouds would be banked up in a straight line several miles ahead. Setting this to 12 makes the whole thing much more random and realistic and the straight line of clouds appears not to happen now. I need to experiment more! Dijvid

Thanks for the replies. I do have AS and REX - bought them when they first came out but I don't use them now. I wasn't overly impressed with them at that time although they may well have improved a lot since then. I still use Flight Environment which, if I remember correctly, was first introduced around about 2004/2005. Yep, it's an old product and easy to use with virtually no overhead when it comes to smooth flying, and gives me sufficient eye candy. Guess I was hoping for some "silver bullet" I could tweak but I think that Skywatcher is right in what he says. Dijvid

I seem to find that clouds come in banks with some [fairly] clear weather in between them. Are there any settings that I could tweak that would give me a more overall coverage? I notice that there are a number of weather settings in the FS9.CFG file but I'm not sure exactly what they all mean. My present settings in the sim are: Sight distance = 100 miles Cloud draw distance = 60 miles 3-D cloud percentage = 100% Detailed clouds = Selected Cloud coverage density = Maximum Many thanks for any help. Dijvid

Useful - thanks Skywatcher. Dijvid

Thanks for the reply, DJ. When this sort of thing happens you feel kinda helpless without a techie understanding of the Internet. Next time I'll know!! Dijvid

For 12 hours I was unable to access Avsim - I kept getting an error message asking me to contact my host [whoever they are?] about it. I tried contacting my ISP but they said they couldn't help. Did anyone else experience this? Dijvid

I've created some user waypoints which I will want to access on a regular basis. So far, so good - I can see them in the waypoints list [Window/User Waypoint menu option]. However, how on earth can I call them up and select them for insertion in a flight plan? I've Googled, looked at FAQs and even read the user manual [!!] but I just can't work out how to do this. If someone can help I'll be most grateful as I feel a complete idiot not being able to work this out for myself. Ta! Dijvid OK, forget it! I've finally worked it out.

Many thanks for your reply, Jim. After flying the sim for 13 years now there is always something new that you didn't know about! Dijvid

I have an airport where the developer has used "real" ground textures instead of the default textures. These look totally unrealistic when on approach so I want to delete them and revert to the stock textures instead. There are a whole bunch of texture files in the format "011222231230303an.agn" and "011222231230303su.bmp" which I assume are the "real" textures. If I remove these I would expect the stock textures to then show, but they don't. In fact, there are absolutely no textures at all which seems to suggest that the developer has somehow disabled the stock textures. Is there an obvious trick I am missing or am I trying to effect the impossible? Any help will be much appreciated. BTW, the airport is LFLC by France VFR. Dijvid

It might be a good idea if you post your question in the QW forum as no-one here has been able to answer you. Dijvid

Just as a matter of interest not all that long ago I searched for and found a link where I was able to buy the FS9 version of the Beech 1900 from PMDG - it's not listed on their main site. And before anyone asks for the link I'm afraid that I didn't save it but I certainly did buy a legitimate copy from them. However, although I have bought this aircraft it has done nothing to make me want to move to FSX or P3D to get their more improved products - and it wouldn't have made me any more determined if I have somehow got the 1900 free either. Dijvid