hi. i can’t do any cloud or wind layers above 18000ft. The other day I was following the CRJ700 tutorial from docs and loaded their .pln file and am wondering if it may have change since then? thx
Clouds would be few and far between as at that height only cirrus clouds exist?
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thx for you’re reply. I still should have options to set wind and clouds above 18000ft as i’ve always had in the sim b4 it changed to a max of 18000.
Are you talking about custom weather setup?
Because if I fly on Live Weather mode, I can still get those high-altitude cirrocumulus and cirrostratus clouds at 39,000 feet. I really hate these clouds because they kill FPS.
Yes. Custom weather setup
Cumulonimbus reach up to FL400, for instance.
So having clouds at that altitude is quite common, especially around the equator.
If all critical clouds were below 18.000ft, there’d be much less navigation trouble in airline operation.
That’s weird… it looks like a UI issue on your end.
look at the top of your picture.
Clear skies = no clouds above 18K.
just checked it , when you change clear skies to few clouds then you have more layer options.
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Hi. Thx for that suggestion but as you can see it doesn’t matter what it is, winds and clouds have a max altitude of 18000.
In Options | Misc | Units of measure, I suspect you have it set to metric rather than US system
18,000m is very close to 60,000ft which is what the default layer top is for weather.
The Weather panel is obviously bugged as it clearly shows the Wind top level as being in feet when that is actually metres.
To test, set to metric units, and set a cloud layer at 18,000 and then slew your aircraft up there. Altimeter in cockpit shows aircraft at 60,000ft
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On their Screenshot it says 10000ft, so either the unit is set to feet or there is a bug in the weather menu.
Yes! Thank you so much. All fixed now. There must be a bug though, as you say, for it to show ft when set to metric.
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