Hi everyone. First post on this forum.
I bought SMP last week and have been very impressed by what I have seen so far. I run it with RWC and Active Sky XP, although I have also run it by itself, with weather conditions input via the weather screen in XP11, in manual mode.
My problem is with cloud thickness and ceiling heights, which often seem to be a poor match for the Metar report and what shows up in the XP11 weather settings screen. I have been scudding along the top of solid cloud at 6000ft when XP11 was set to 3500ft tops (no RWC or ASXP in that instance). Then with overcast cloud base set at 1000ft AGL, I have descended through 600ft AGL before seeing the ground. More usually, with ASXP, RWC and SMP running together, it is the opposite problem and I can see the ground through overcast cloud while I'm more than 2000ft above the supposed cloud base. (Log file attached for this last case.)
Is this still a known issue and are there any solutions or work-arounds? I know this has been discussed before but the software has moved on, and some of the suggestions are no longer valid for my version (SMP 4.9.6 and RWC 1.1).
On a related subject, I sometimes set up custom weather areas in ASXP to give me exactly the weather I want for departure, en-route and arrival. Will they work as intended with RWC and SMP?
Main message here is that I like the software, but I will like it a little more if I can practice ILS approaches in marginal conditions that match the metar.
Log.txt