GEPRO possible problem

I have AS 6.5 and GE pro and started a flight plan in Vancouver BC today.  Started AS for the wx and it transferred me to GEpro for the graphics.  It installed clear sky ground graphics.  When the flight started it was very cloudy.  I later checked and the real weather was cloudy so AS got it right.  Why would GE pro install clear sky ground graphics?

According to Jim Skorna you're doing it backwards.  He says doing it that way you will not input AS weather into FS9. 

However, either way GEP should input the proper graphics for the weather.

Thanks for all the pix.  I assumed it would work.  It seemed to.  I would prefer to start with GEP than AS. 

I like the wx-controlled clouds from AS so I wrote on the AS forum and asked if the clouds would load with the wx when starting originally from GEP.  He wrote that the wx doesn't load into FS that way, that GEP only uses the wx info from AS in that instance to determine which textures to load.  That's it.  I'm just repeating what he said.  You and he seem to have different opinions.  I'm going to write again on the hifi forum.  This is getting crazy.

Actually he was telling me how AS weather loads.  He said you must start AS first.  Totally different from what you've been saying.

I just looked at the AS documentation as it pertains to GEP integration.  It says you can start either one first and it will work fine.  Hard to understand but it looks like it won't install clouds unless you start AS first.  Problem is when you start AS first then GEP doesn't always install the right textures.  Sometimes when it's overcast GEP installs clear textures.  So it looks like I have a choice.  I can either start GEP first and go back to using FE clouds, but I like the idea of wx-influenced clouds.  Not sure how much of a difference they make though.  Or I can start AS first and sometimes not get the correct GEP textures.  Or I can do some convoluted combination.  I'll have to think about it.  In the meantime, would you mind sharing the different FE combinations you use?  Do you input different combinations depending on weather?

Thanks.  I heard from Jim again.  He was very clear that to input wx info into FS you must start AS first.  He said doing it the other way inputs wx only to give info to GEP to determine which texture set to load.  He said AS does not run in the background when you start GEP first.  Something is very screwy.

Win7 or XP?

Aporadic admin issue perhaps?  Try right click, run as admin.

The profile requires a manual start... dunno why.

Originally posted by rich12545 That Track IR looks cool.  Don't think I could sell the idea to my wife though lol.

Jumping from airport to airport I had appropriate updates and AS matched FS.  What I did notice from time to time was that the ATIS needed to catch up a little.  It would have the right ZULU time and location but wind direction/speed were off but did sooner or later catch up.  Again, the METAR data in AS matched the FS situation but ATIS was lagging on wind.