FS2004 FSMetar

[michaelvader]

Hallo Friends,

since some days I experiance my real actual weather engine for FS2004 to not work anymore.
What ever I try I get the message "Metars download failed".
I tried also to reinstall a newer version aplied all instructions how to install it but than I get the message that an error ocuried and the programm must be closed.Can someone point me to a solution to resolve the problem.
Or where can I get an alternative engine for real actual weathe in FS2004?
Yours
Papi

[UncleTgt]

Papi,

I use FSMETARS (offline) for CFS2. IIRC the weather servers which FSMetar uses have changed. Open the FSMetar.ini file with Notepad and replace the [General] section with this text:

[General]

FSRefresh =60
InternetRefresh=15
IvaoURL = http://www.ivao.aero/network/metar.asp
VatsimURL = http://metar.vatsim.net/metar.php?id=ALL
NooaURL = http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/obs.../metar/cycles/
Proxy =NO
AutoRefresh=On
IvaoOnline=http://www.ivao.aero/network/metar.asp?Id=
VatsimOnline=http://metar.vatsim.net/metar.php?id=ALL
NooaOnline=http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl?cccc=
FSMessages=Yes
Debug=No
LanguageFile=English.lng
DefaultServer=VATSIM
StartDownloadingMetars=YES
ProxyUser=
ProxyPassword=

Hope this helps.

[Tom Clayton]

I tried everything I could, but the board refuses to display the entire text of that third link, so here it is with some spaces added to show everything. Copy the following line, delete all spaces, and you'll have it:
http:// weather.noaa.gov/ pub/ data/ observations/ metar/ cycles/

[michaelvader]

Hallo UncleTgt,

thank you a lot!
Your advice was right. Know my Metar is working again as it should.
I' m happy.

Yours
Papi