What is the difference between Active Sky weather which you buy & FSMetar153 which is freeware and can be downloaded here http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/fsmetar/ . Do they not both do the same thing? They even use the same FSUIPC in the FS9 modules folder to do their thing. How are they different?

Hi,There are many unique features to AS2004 that are not available elsewhere. Remember AS2004 is the result of over 3 years of development and is provided on a high-resolution private server system. Please see http://www.hifisim.com/ and see the ActiveSky2004 product page, it will list all features, please compare them!Thanks!

I was refering to active sky wxRE. It appears to be identical in usefulness to the application on the link I provided above but with a price tag. A friend has active sky wxRE but has not been able to demonstrate much difference between it and the "FSMetar153". This is what has prompted this post. If you are to busy to respond that is OK. For now I will stick with the FSMetar153 untill I am totally convinced that active sky wxRE is worth the buy. Good day Sir and many enjoyable flights!!!!

ActiveSky WxRE is an obsolete product, a leftover from the FS2002 era.Obsolete not in the sense of "not working", rather in the sense that technology has made huge leaps forwards since it was last updated.Back in those times it was an advanced product, the result of many effort made by the HifiSim team.Then FS2004 came with an all different weather engine, and AS2004 was born.WxRE was then considered as a finished product, and development shifted to AS2004.So it may well be that a freeware developer has achieved a techincal level as high as AS WxRE, as development for that software has ceased.But as said WxRE is very limited by FS2002 own weather engine, thus it's "easy" somewhat to replicate its features.AS2004 is a complitely different thing.Hope to have clarified it a bit, and please excuse me Damian if i stated something wrong.

I tried to tell my buddy it was a a waste of cash but he wouldn't listen!!! It should be advertised for use with FS2002 and not FS2004 if it is truly "obsolete" and not fitting to be used with 2004. I think that's where the confusion lies. In light of this fact and the NUMEROUS bugs this thing appears to have I think I will hang back a while and use the freeware stuff and just see how this works out. Don't get me wrong I'm here 'cause I'm interested but there is nothing worse than buying a product (we have all done it) and getting the thing home only to find it needs patch after patch and is a configuration nightmare!

Hi,It IS advertised as recommended for use with FS2002, not FS2004. But it does work just fine within its feature set for FS2004, as described. What NUMEROUS bugs? I have not one open bug report! If your buddy has problems, he should contact HiFi support for resolution!