Hi, when in FSX I land in my "home" airport, that is Rome Ciampino LIRA, every time I reach about 1000 ft during the approach, my vertical speed goes from -700 fpm to zero or positive, thus making the final approach rather difficult. This happens with or without ActiveSky (I have AS 2012 SP2 Beta3).

I was told that this is caused by thermals generated by the simulator and so, in order to avoid it, I can remove or rename the file Thermaldescriptions.xml. If I do that, will I still be able to experience thermals in other places when I use AS2012? In other words, is AS2012 capable of generating thermals indipendently of the file Thermaldescriptions.xml? I wouldn't like to suppress thermals at all, but just in that point, because in real life it doesn't happen.

Thanks.

Hi James,

 

In theory yes you should still experience thermals via AS2012 thermal generation even if you remove that file. I have not specifically tested this, however.

Thank you, Damian.

I removed thermaldescriptions.xml and indeed I don't have that thermal in that point, so far so good.

Is there a way to test or to visualize AS2012 thermals, in order to see if they are still present? I see on the AS main screen that they are generated, but don't know how to experience them. Anyway I think that, as you said, they have nothing to do with that file, that mainly associates thermals to the various types of terrain lanclass.

Thanks.