Hello everyone!

 

I have FSX with Active Sky Evolution SP3 installed.

 

The problem is the following...

 

Whenever i take-off/landing/approaching to an airport with low visibility conditions, everything is looking normal but then suddenly the fog layer appears. For example, i am on final approach at lets say, LIMF and at about 5NM everything is clear, then at 4NM the fog layer or whatever is called appears all of a sudden. Now, isnt the fog supposed to be seen while descending before the final so that everything has a smooth transition? Anyway, this is starting to be quite stressing.

 

Now it may be me that has not changed much in the settings of ASE.

My visibility settings are as it follows:

 

 

"Fog Layer Generation" checked

 

"Disable Haze Layer" checked

 

"Enable Visibility Graduation and Smoothing" Un-checked

 

Could it be the last option causing all this thing to happen? Anyway, to enable the last option i need to enable the DWC option also right?

 

Thanks everyone for your time reading this.

Hope someone will help me because i am desperate

Hi,

 

First, please try the SP4 beta which is available via the sticky post at top of this forum. It has some improvements.

 

Next, You have Disable haze layer, but you have disabled visibility graduation and smoothing. So the visibility layer is at a set altitude (approximately 3000ft AGL) and as soon as you descend into it the vis reduces accordingly, instantly. If you enabled the haze layer, you would be able to see this visibility layer from above. If you enabled visibility graduation, you would have smoothly reducing visibility from about 8000ft down to 2500AGL where it would settle at the target surface visibility condition value.

 

Yes vis grad/smoothing requires DWC. You can either enable DWC and enable that to solve this issue (recommended), or you can stay in station-based modes and enable the haze layer if you want to see the visibility layer from above so it is not as much a surprise.

 

Hope that helps!

Ok, i will try the SP4.

 

So, let me see if i understood right. All i have to do is enable the DWC and then check the Enable Visibility Graduation and Smoothing option to get the visibility transition smooth from ~8000ft. However, i could only un-check the disable haze layer option to see the layer from before but then it would show instantly without transitions right? So, at the end its the same situation as before except i will be able to see it from a distance.

Correct, without vis grad/smoothing, with Haze layer enabled, you would get the instant shift of vis as soon as you descend into the visibility layer, but you at least can visually identify when this will occur.

 

DWC and visgrad/smoothing sounds like the best bet for you.

Ok! Thanks a lot for your reply.

 

I will test it tomorrow. I will have the DWC and visibility/smoothing option enabled.

 

Thanks again!