*** UPDATED for RC6/B366 Availability ****** REMINDER: Please send bug reports to [email protected] ***NOTICE: The ASV Enhanced Upgrade is pending OFFICIAL RELEASE. Suggestions for future enhancement/modification should sent to [email protected]. ***Hi all!We are pleased to announce that ASV Enhanced (Build 366) is now ready for public beta testing!This new "upgrade" version is available absolutely free to all ASV owners. ASV must be installed to upgrade to this latest version. We also recommend that the latest FSUIPC and related utilities be updated to the latest available versions (http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html).Thanks go out to our internal Beta Team for their help putting the new enhancements to the test and making sure no obvious issues remained.Download ASV Enhanced Upgrade (RC6, B366) from: http://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/ASV_..._UpgradeRC6.zipRemember, ASV MUST be installed on the machine you are upgrading.We highly recommend that the "Normal Defaults" button (in the ASV options screen) be used after upgrading to initialized new recommended options.Remember, this is a BETA version and is not an official release. Official release will happen within a couple weeks, or whenver we verify that all potential issues have been addressed. Please use this at your own risk!This public beta process will help us identify any machine/setup-specific problems or overlooked bugs... Reports should be e-mailed to [email protected] with as much detailed data that can be provided. ASV.INI, ASV.LOG and screenshots can really help along with a full description of the problem and instructions on how to duplicate. We sincerely appreciate your help putting this upgrade to the final test before official release! Of course we also welcome any and all comments/suggestions on this release and would like to thank all our users for their ongoing support of our products. Thanks all!B366:The following fixes/improvements have been made:1) Fixed problem with rounding

Well done!!!! Thanks to the team!

Thanks Damian!

Great!!! Can't wait till I'll be home this evening and try it out. Thanks!

Thanks for the new beta to look at.If we have questions about this version's new features/functionality which are not bugs should we ask them here or send email to the bug reports address?

Hi,Here would be fine!!Best,

Hi!Just finished a flight with ASV Enhanced, and it's simply amazing! Everything works nice and smooth and the sunset enviroment was magical!I only have one remark. Even before the sun sets, the ground gets too dark. As a result, the aircraft and airport lights are not on yet (I guess 'cos in reality it's still early). I have no picture yet, but maybe I'll be able to post one soon. Other than that the sunest colors are GREAT!

Yes! Yes! Yes!!I so can't wait to test this out later this evening. whats the synopsis with the low ifr ceilings? Can someone comment on if <500 foot ceilings are accurately displayed?thanks for making the beta available to the public and for all your efforts!

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Hi,Thanks for that..You are using it correctly..By duplicating what you have shown I noted that everything in the engine works correctly, loading initial weather for the FS location at the proper time (KSEA in my test)... but the closest station report is using the pre-updated weather which, when "ignore FS location until ready" is used, and a flightplan has not been processed, provides the initial ASV data instead of the updated location data. If you were to process a flightplan first, the closest station report would be correct... We will get this addressed as well as any other issues that are found. As to default start airport, you can do this (sort of) by quickly entering a flight plan with departure/destination/altitude only. We will work on a default startup airport option in a future update.Thanks for your feedback!!!Best,

Hi,We noted no issues with low IFR ceiling since we added the Force Lowest Ceiling option. I am not sure however that our beta team has specifically tested for <500 ceilings... in our previous tests this issue did not occur on all setups and I had trouble duplicating myself (with the exception of the conflicting METAR cloud layer info as fixed by the lowest ceiling option).If you have any problems with such ceilings please e-mail us the info as described at the top of this thread, and we'll be sure to get it resolved ASAP!Thanks,

Tried it out this evening and really great! Sunsets are very nice and it's very good also that the progam waits and checks now to see which airport you're really at:) Thanks!!!!!!

> whats the>synopsis with the low ifr ceilings? Can someone comment on if><500 foot ceilings are accurately displayed?I just headed out to St. John, New Brunswick which was reporting 1/4 SM visibility, light rain showers and fog with vertical visibility of 100 feet and took off. When I got to 120 feet AGL I was in the soup! I'm going to be looking for some more places to test in the next few days, but if this first flight was an example of how the new low ifr ceilings have been done, wow!!!

Hello Hifisim,Well there have certainly been significant improvements with the new beta, however the ceiling issue has not been completely resolved. In regards to duplicating the problem try these settings in WX configurator:7SM OVC001The fundamental problem with fs9 still exists. Visibility and ceilings are not independent variables. Despite setting the ceiling to 100 ft the high visibility overrides this variable. The conditions departing the airport are never the same as arrival. Using the settings above I do not hit the clouds until 2600 ft directly over the airport departing. This is with slewing and departing normally even with the "Force lowest ceiling

Hi Drix,Please e-mail us the info as described at the top of this thread at: [email protected] ThanksChris WillisHiFi Simulation Software Team Developerhttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg