rfnagel Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Here's an interesting one: I download archives of the last real-world weather files for FS2K that hosted were on the long-since gone MSN Zone site: http://fs2k.zone.com:80/fronts.bin http://fs2k.zone.com/metars.bin http://fs2k.zone.com/metars_and_winds_aloft.bin ...on the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) from: https://web.archive.org/web/20190421053133/http://fs2k.zone.com/fronts.bin https://web.archive.org/web/20041210200236/http://fs2k.zone.com:80/metars.bin https://web.archive.org/web/20041210191154/http://fs2k.zone.com:80/metars_and_winds_aloft.bin ...and uploaded them to my web server at http://bhservices.us . Open your "FS2000.cfg" file with WinDoZe NotePad, edit the following line in the file: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Weather] WeatherServerAddress=fs2k.zone.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ...to read: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Weather] WeatherServerAddress=bhservices.us -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ...and save the "FS2000.cfg" file. Start FS2K and it will alow you to download the real-world weather from within the sim (the ".bin" files will be downloaded from my web server)... it works just like it did back in the day :) It's really a shame that there isn't some way to copy and paste METAR data (e.g. from https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar/data ) into a file, somehow convert it to the MSN Zone ".bin" files, and then load them into FS2K. Anyhow, I thought this was kind of neat :) 1 Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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