change altitude at weather station

[argeme]

Hi,

I have a problem a certain airports (f.e. KBOS and SPIM) where the airport area is under different weather stations.  At low visibility the plane gets "under" the visibility layer so that it suddenly gets unlimited visibility even though it is foggy weather.

Therefore I would like  to edit the weatherstation altitude. I remember I have edited once through Active Sky Evolution but since I cannot open that one anymore (for me it only works online) I need another way to do that.

I would like to edit the wxmapping.bin which I believe is the file that contains the positions of the weather stations. 

 

I tried to open the bin file with a HEX editor but it does not seem to work. 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[DirkDP]

Hi,

FS9 options for ASE are stored in FS9Options.cfg, It's in C:\Users\*Your login*\AppData\Roaming\Hifi\ASE\Options... Or do a search for it.

First make a backup, just in case...

Open that file with Notepad, find the setting AutomaticDownloads = , which will be set to True in your case, change that to False, and save.

 

Now your ASE should open without trying to connect to a no longer existing server (btw, thanks for that HiFi)...

 

Regards,

DDP.

 

[argeme]

Thanks, but I am already at AutomaticDownloads= false

 

I think it has to do with the version. In an earlier discussion about ASE someone wrote: 

"The last ASE build went 100% online and won't open. It's build 709, tells you on the main screen what build you have bottom left. Any previous build, ASE had an offline mode and will work and open up completely without ANY need for the internet. I think for many people this will simply mean, don't apply the last official patch to take it up to build 709."

[DirkDP]

Hi,

 

I also have build 709, and it opens, checked earlier today. I've always used ASE both on and offline, online only to download the historical Wx files.

My FS9 flying (with ASE 709) has always been offline and without problems.

When the servers shut down ASE wouldn't open because it tried to connect to them and just hung... Editing the options file solved it for me.

 

Regards, DDP.

 

[Skywatcher12]

On 6/19/2023 at 5:20 AM, DirkDP said:

Hi,

FS9 options for ASE are stored in FS9Options.cfg, It's in C:\Users\*Your login*\AppData\Roaming\Hifi\ASE\Options... Or do a search for it.

First make a backup, just in case...

Open that file with Notepad, find the setting AutomaticDownloads = , which will be set to True in your case, change that to False, and save.

 

Now your ASE should open without trying to connect to a no longer existing server (btw, thanks for that HiFi)...

 

Regards,

DDP.

 

I can confirm what Dirk mentions above does work. Thanks Dirk and HiFi!

[argeme]

Thanks for the answers. I found out that I had to delete options.cfg og make the fs9 create a new one. THEN it works, but unfortunately I cannot open and edit the .bin file from FSGRW in AS.

So I still have found out how to change the altitude of metar stations.