Best settings

[Jetblst 23]

Brand new to Active Sky here and loving it so far.

 

I need to have AS do as you mentioned above.  Be unexpected.  I would like to arrive at my destination with marginal IFR weather.  200' and 1/2.  I would like AS to sometimes give me 1/4 mile and sometimes 3/4 as well as say 300' then 150' ceilings.

 

A am trying to simulate real world missed approaches.

 

Can AS do this?  My apologies if this has been covered somewhere else.

 

What would be my best way to proceed?

 

Thanks so much!

[WR269 367]

No not really, I started experimenting with Local Writes with DWC running networked to see if I like it better or not. It seems to smooth out the transitions a little better.

Other then that I haven't changed anything.

Dave, for flying over water, are there any issues enabling Local Writes as well as Enhance Route Coverage?

 

Also, setting a destination in the planner gives advanced interpolation at 120nm around destination, but weather will still change if the metar changes. What is your preferred update interval? I have mine set at 5 minutes, my hope is that any changes are captured gradually by setting interval at only 5 minutes rather than complete weather swings by updating every 15 minutes or longer. Your thoughts please?

[Daveo 36]

The clouds are smoother. I think anyway.

As for the download time mine is set at 15. Every 5 minutes is like a waste of time querying the server. Good stations usually update hourly anyway and alot of stations can take even longer.

If most people hit the server every 5 minutes that would be alot of load to handle at times.

[WR269 367]

The clouds are smoother. I think anyway.As for the download time mine is set at 15. Every 5 minutes is like a waste of time querying the server. Good stations usually update hourly anyway and alot of stations can take even longer.If most people hit the server every 5 minutes that would be alot of load to handle at times.

Thanks Dave, will try Create Additional Stations, Enhanced Route Coverage and Local Stations Write and move updates to 15 minutes.Cheers

 

One more question, what is the best Dynamic Rate of Change?

[Dirk98 354]

Daveo, are the any changes to your FSXOptions.cfg with the latest SP2 version?

 

Thanks,

Dirk.

[Dirk98 354]

Thanks Dave, will try Create Additional Stations, Enhanced Route Coverage and Local Stations Write and move updates to 15 minutes. Cheers

 

One more question, what is the best Dynamic Rate of Change?

 

Will, what are your findings with: 

- Create Additional Stations

- Enhanced Route Coverage

- Local Stations wrties with DWC

- Dynamic Rate of Change

 

Interesting, what is the current consensus on these settings in the current version?

 

For example, Additional stations and Enhanced route coverage sound good but they may affect the perfromance and even cause wind shifts... Has anybody experimented with these?

 

 

Thanks,

Dirk.

[Daveo 36]

Daveo, are the any changes to your FSXOptions.cfg with the latest SP2 version?

 

Thanks,

Dirk.

Just saw this.

 

Yes I changed LocalWriteswithDWC = False to True.

ForceWindLock = True to False

 

I'll update the original post.

[Dirk98 354]

I'll update the original post.

 

Cool, please let us know when done.

 

 

thanks.

 

Dirk.

[Daveo 36]

It is updated.

#2 post in this thread.

 

It was just those 2 changes mentioned above.

[Dirk98 354]

Thanks, Dave.

 

Dirk.

[flyingnoob 25]

Hi Joe,

 

This is what I use. Pretty much for everything

 

[Options]

fsVersion = FSX

AutoRefreshAI = False

DynamicRateofChangePercent = 0

VATSIMDownloads = False

AutomaticDownloadInterval = 15

AutomaticDownloads = True

CAVOKCloudGenerationPercent = 35

NoDataCloudGenerationPercent = 35

CirrusCloudGenerationPercent = 55

MaximumCloudLayers = 10

MinimumCloudTurbulencePercent = 0

MaximumCloudTurbulencePercent = 100

MinimumCloudIcingPercent = 0

MaximumCloudIcingPercent = 100

StratusCloudOccurrencePercent = 25

MinimumVisibilitySM = 0

MaximumVisibilitySM = 70

MaximumUpperVisibilitySM = 80

MaximumSurfaceWindSpeed = 100

MinimumWindTurbulencePercent = 0

MaximumWindTurbulencePercent = 100

MinimumWindShearPercent = 0

MaximumWindShearPercent = 100

DisableWindsAloft = False

WakeTurbulenceStrength = 100

CreateVirtualStations = False

EnhanceRouteCoverage = False

DepictHurricanes = True

EnableSkyScapeMode = False

UseSkyScapeforStratus = False

ForceHighPriority = True

UpdateRange = 500

EnableWindSmoothing = False

EnableVisibilityGraduation = True

EnableFogLayerSimulation = True

LocalSuppression = True

SuppressionRange = 200

StartupWave = False

EnableDirectWindControl = True

ShowSimMessages = False

SupressOnGround = False

ForceDestinationWeatherZone = False

VoiceATIS = True

ThermalGenerationRatePercent = 75

UpandDowndraftGenerationRatePercent = 65

MaximumDowndraftRate = 350

MaximumUpdraftThermalRate = 500

DisableHazeLayer = True

FogLayerGeneration = True

DatFileOverwriteUserEdit = 0

ForceWindLock = False

SuppressionCeiling = 10000

FSXDepictionMode = DWC

PreventFSXCloudRedraws = False

PreventTstormsWithCB = False

GraduationCeiling = 8000

UseStratusForFog = True

StratoCumulus = True

PostPlanGraphicsPrompt = False

LocalWriteswithDWC = True

OvercastEnhancement = True

ReduceVisibilityInCloudLayers = True

Hi dave, can we just copy and paste these settings?

[Daveo 36]

Yes it should work. It is only a text file.

Backup your original first.

[flyingnoob 25]

Sure, no worries.

 

Cheers Dave

[Beardyman 604]

I have applied Daveo settings.

Looks that it is realistic and gives nice feeling, but as i see all changes are happening very sharp and suddenly, there is no smooth transition from one to another condition.

How to make those transitions smooth ?

[robsgam 0]

Hey Dave,

 

Do these setting apply when also using Radar Contact 4?  I find I am getting inaccurate weather reported by RC4 and consequently getting poor runway choices.  Thanks in advance.

 

Rob