JackRichardson

Hello,Just open a ticket here - http://membership.vatsim.net/user/index.php?x=&mod_id=4They should get you sorted and reactivate your account.Jack

Hi Damian,Just a quick query about what the snapshots include. With regard to REX within the 'theme creation' page, you can change:the sky theme water/tropical water wave animation runways / taxiways airport environment the sun / lighting (lens flare, lightning, landing lights, aircraft strobe and runway lights) If possible could you please specify specifically which of the above variables are saved in an ASE Snapshot, as "environment textures only" could be interpreted in different ways.Thanks,Jack

With a config as recommended by NickN and with an external FPS limited locking at 25 fps it runs silky smooth with any addon that I've tried. Also, with the limiter the frames struggle to fall below 25.Jack

Jim, Your huge post count shows just how much you've put into the community especially on the Hifi forums. I do hope you leave yourself at least some time for flight simming. Best of luck with whatever you're doing. Jack

This website's my favourite for this sort of thing. - http://www.awfulweather.org/Uses the METARs, and you can specify to filter below a certain visibility, cloud ceiling, etc. Also you can choose between countries and continents.Jack

Hello,The Aivlasoft EFB sounds like the perfect piece of kit for yourself. - http://www.aivlasoft.com/Their ideology of the software is that it removes the need for having as you've said, some quite confusing charts.It may seem quite costly, but it's certainly worth a go, especially as there is a free 30 day trial.You should definitely fly with the SIDs and STARs, as it makes your IFR flying much more realistic and if you fly on an online network (such as VATSIM) then it is a requirement to fly them.Happy flying!Jack

Michael,If you wish to continue using Vroute then are you aware that you can simply enter what are known as "private routes" into vroute?When on the add route page, there is a drop down menu and you can change this to add your route as a private route. This will then bypass much of the validation procedure (removing the error messages) and you will then be able to export the flightplan as usual in the formats you require.Hope this helps,Jack

Hi Julian,Nice to see I got something right for once :)On another note after using your weather setup for quite a few months, for me it has turned out perfectly. No shifts, great depiction, even seemingly good when using ASE in Smooth Cloud Transitions for my occasional VFR and GA flights.So thanks for making my weather setup perfect!Much appreciated,Jack

Hello,From my understanding when you use any external weather software it overrides the downloading and showing of the standard FSX weather. But the Rate of Change settings in FSX do affect outcome. I know that there are also settings for Dynamic Rate of Change in ASE, but despite this I believe that the FSX settings also affect the depiction. Within the FSX UI settings under Weather, I believe that the "DynamicWeather" coding in the CFG is listed as "Rate at which weather changes over time" in the UI. And a setting of 2 would set this to medium.So overall, from what I understand all the settings (in the FSX file) do effect the end outcome, except for the FSX weather download settings, which are overridden by ASE.Hope this helps (It might be best to get this all clarified by someone with more knowledge though )Jack

Hi Jim,Just flying down there now, and went to look for the weather information in ASE, and it's still not listed! - Over 10 months since the initial request Can this not be fixed?Thanks,Jack

Hello,Today Pete Dowson has released a new update for FSUIPC, which he does do quite regularly. I am not sure whether this will have any effect on weather depiction, but most updates to FSUIPC seem to have improvements rather than making situations worse. I have been using 4.661 (up until today) as recommended by Julian in an earlier post which removed the problem of not having correct destination winds. I will be flying using 4.663, the latest version tonight, and will keep checking this board: http://forum.simflig...pdated-modules/ regularly to check for updates.Hope this helps,Jack

Just looking now and it appears that after loading a preset (the Hurricane Blast in this case) it has updated the Textual Conditions, but not the Graphical Conditions as below:I have tried this with various airports with still the same result. I have also changed the ICAO ID in the selected station and then back again, just in case it needed to update the Graphical Conditions; but this doesn't seem to help. - Just for your information, Automatic Downloads is unticked, when I use the Wx Config.Thanks,Jack

Hello,I seem to have this same problem with B642. I seem to remember that in an older version of ASE, that once the METAR string was edited and you pressed the "Parse METAR" button, then this updated the infomation plotted above on the Wx Config page. I was flying with real world weather for some VFR this evening, and the conditions were deteriorating to IMC, so I decided to load the "Fair Weather" preset. I changed the airport (in the METAR string) to my current closest, set range to "Global" pressed parse, then apply, and no update above or nothing changing in the FSX weather.I seem to be a little confused as I am almost sure that in an older version once changing the METAR the change always appeared above and was pretty much instant.Thanks,Jack

Just flown from SAEZ->SBGR (São Paulo) and on approach and landing the depiction was perfect. Unlike Stephan I was not having problems with en-route weather. So it seems, for me that the latest version of FSUIPC has solved it. Thanks once again Julian!Jack

Yes, I have been recently using the 4.648 beta, but have also tried reverting to the present interim version, 4.638. Neither seem to affect this problem.