Intermittent Full Overcast at 30000+ Feet

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Nathan3219

New member
Good afternoon,

Would like to start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of Active Sky and am very happy with this version for MSFS, and have been a user since FSX days. :)

I have one thing that I notice with Active Sky FS that doesn't seem quite correct, and that's random full overcast conditions at 30K+ feet that only last for a few minutes and don't match the METARs of nearby airport. It happens fairly commonly, and I am not sure its realistic as I've never seen such conditions IRL at cruise altitudes.

I've attached some screenshots of these phenomenons occurring in the sim.

I do not believe it is a location or aircraft-specific issue, as I have had this happen in the Fenix A320 and PMDG 777-300ER in the USA, over the Gulf of Mexico, Russia, over the Indian Ocean, as well as over the Atlantic Ocean.
 

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damian

damian

Developer
Staff member
We're working on improving cirrus (and other non-METAR-specific cloud layer) accuracy and coverage. Thanks for your feedback.
 
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Yardbird

Member
Hi,
here is another example. This really is a problem not only because of the unrealistic visual representation (3000 ft cirrus layer, ovc, up to FL400), but also because of performance. I have a strong system and running everything butter smooth at ultra settings. But this ovc cirrus layers sometimes causes frames to drop to like 5 fps. Strangely this is for like 20 seconds then it runs smooth again then after some more minutes it starts to go again with 5 fps (same weather) and this happens only with those cirrus layers.

Best regards,
Felix
 

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