ms downloaded weather

[alan cottrill]

Is anyone having trouble,downloading the real weather today 12/08/06.
I know it was ok yesterday when i was useing the sim,but keep getting error messages so far today.
alan.

[blanston12]

I had the same problem last night.

[Garry Russell]

Yes Alan

It telling me to check my connection but if I go the the weather setting and click real world there it again gives me the message and on OK it then downloads it

Garry

[alan cottrill]

It was giving error message,when i clicked on ok it appeared to have downloaded,but when the sim is running,it keeps trying to load the weather,and stopping the sim,while it trys again.
Just trying to think,does it go to ms site for weather,or nearest station to where you wish to fly from. :think:
If like i suspect,and from your answers here,it sounds like its to ms site,and it may be down.
Thanks for your replys,it saves me the trouble of trying to find a none existant fault in my settings. :dance:
alan.

[Kevin Farnell]

Same problem for me.

Let me guess, the authorities have decided that knowing the weather for airports and routes is a 'critical security risk' :roll:

Regards

Kevin

[DispatchDragon]

<---uses ASv6 - no problems here

Leif

[airboatr]

I called and got a recorded responce
due to bad weather
there may not be any real world weather :k:

:think:
nope

[alan cottrill]

Now that sounds like they have taken a (leaf)out of british rails book of excuses
alan

[calypso]

I remeber having this problem a while back.

I switched to FS Metar (freeware) and I haven't looked back.

Produces excellent weather for me (a big improvement on MSFS weather) and has little or no effect on frame rates.

Remember to disable Render to Texture in FS to avoid the screen flashing during updates.

http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/fsmetar/

[blanston12]

I have known the FS weather service to be down for short times but never this long. I wonder if they turned it off to encourage ppl to switch to FSX