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Is there any way I can find out where there is turbulance when I download real weather other than going into advanced weather and checking the weather station nearest to the point I am landing at?

Other than finding a wesite with the real life METAR's (or TAFS) on it and looking there, I can't really think of another way, sorry.

|Alex|

There are a number of websites from which you can download flightplans and most of them will give the weather at you destination.  For enroute weather your best bet is to download a metar programme that collects data for all reporting metars. With some of these you can "thin" the data to your route but in any case you would easily be able to  asses for turbulence by comparing reported winds and winds aloft. BTW you should always leave the seatbelt sign "on" in case you encounter clear air turbulence.
You are the pilot and it is essential you keep the back of your neck dry!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vololiberista

Best way I know of is to keep flying... eventually you'll find some.

Slightly more seriously: I"ve found the "real world" wx info in FS9 to be even less reliable than real world wx info in the real world...

Some turbulence can be easily deduced by an understanding of the big picture (converging fronts, etc), but there are always surprises.   And sometimes a lone PIREP describing turbulence turns out to be nothing to be concerned about.

I find the worst turbulence in FS9 is when I've eaten large amounts of cabbage and beans

I had quite a lot of turbulence on the final leg of my RTW crossing the North Atlantic. I was even getting some 10

If you fly in the US, go to nws.noaa.gov and click on the aviation link on the left side. They have turbulence data along with pireps, metars, sigmets, and about anything else you could ever need.