Also, Dave, I would really like to suggest that, in order to get a better idea of what ASN can give you, you test two scenarios:

 

1) Search ( using the built in search menu ) for heavy precipitation and thunderstorms, like those provided by a situation like, for instance: FAWK 101557Z 02010KT 3000 SHRA BKN005 FEW040CB 17/16 Q1023

 

then move your aircraft to that airfield and takeoff / fly around / use the weather radar.

 

Do the same in your preferred weather injector. Do you notice the differences?

 

 

2) If you like soaring, pick a good glider model ( I suggest Aerosoft's Discus X! ), look for an area with mountains / hills and place it near the upwind ridges. Fly along it and taste the orographic effects ( the wind doesn't have to be incredably strong...)

 

Then, again, pick your preferred weather injector and do the same. Do you notice any differences?

 

I could go on suggestion yet other comparisons...

 

In the end, make your decision :-)

 

I can't get a trial key:

 

"We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. These errors appear below.

 

A trial key was not able to be issued. Note that you may only receive one trial license for this product."

 

Did you type "I Agree" exactly as stated on the page?

Yep.  I wonder if it's because I use gmail.

Have you changed any of the default cloud options in ASN?

No, not really...

The only button I clicked was the one to set asn to reality settings or whatever it's called.

 

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I just got done flying the A2A 172 with ASN and this is by far the best weather I have had in any sim.   This si the first time in FSX where the weather matters....  I can't just fly through tunderstorms in a 172 anymore.  Plus  I had lots of problems with opus cloud shifting and extreme wind shifts  when flying low and slow no matter what I did with the settings.   ASN is my new weather add-on

Thanks for all the suggestions  -  I may not have acknowledged them all but I am taking note.

 

Ok I did a search and found 3m visibility at CYAH, so I headed off there.

 

Down at low level, ASN looked really great:

 

 

...........1,000 higher than this and I was in solid, thick zero visibility and it looked great. :smile:

 

 

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My issue though, is that within this very same weather depiction, when I went up to 9,500 it looked like this:

 

 

 

 

If it was completely overcast down at 2,000 feet, with no visibility of the ground out of the aircraft, shouldn't I be looking down from 9,500 at a blanket of white? ........ Surely I shouldn't be able to see the ground from 9,500, if there is no visibility at 2,000.

 

This is where I'm still struggling with ASN.

 

I'll change settings as suggested in the last few posts and do some more weather surfing.   :smile:

 

 

One thing I keep seeing with ASN is weather that looks like this

 

That is SO COOL!  I see that cloud pattern all the time when I go outside.  First time I've seen it in FSX.  Thanks, HiFi.

 

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Yep.  I wonder if it's because I use gmail.

Nope it worked fine for me during testing and I used Gmail too, I must have activated trial licences about 40 times during testing.

If it was completely overcast down at 2,000 feet, with no visibility of the ground out of the aircraft, shouldn't I be looking down from 9,500 at a blanket of white? ........ Surely I shouldn't be able to see the ground from 9,500, if there is no visibility at 2,000.

 

Dave, have you ticked the "Enhance overcast conditions", last item under the "Cloud options" ?

 

Anyway, I believe this sort of situation can happen, unless you have volumetric fog to play with, but that's what P3Dv2 will give you together with ASN! Opting to depict an overcast layer of stratus is really not the correct way to depict fog either...

 

If it was completely overcast down at 2,000 feet, with no visibility of the ground out of the aircraft, shouldn't I be looking down from 9,500 at a blanket of white? ........ Surely I shouldn't be able to see the ground from 9,500, if there is no visibility at 2,000.

 

This is where I'm still struggling with ASN.

 

I'll change settings as suggested in the last few posts and do some more weather surfing.   :smile:

 

Yeah I think this is an overall failure of the FSX weather system.  OPUS does similar things on my end. 

Exactly, no way around, unless one uses an irrelistic stratus cloud layer, and even so it doesn't work as expected.

 

P3Dv2's volumetric fog can change this scenario though!  While we are testing it in the beta team, I do not presently have P3Dv2 installed, so, I can't reproduce it on my rig and see how it works under such occasions :-/

Yeah I think this is an overall failure of the FSX weather system.

I was told FSX weather system doesn't play any role with ASN. :Thinking:

I was told FSX weather system doesn't play any role with ASN. :Thinking:

The fog rendering engine is broken in FSX and is hard coded. That's the limitation. It works fine on the ground, but not above it. That's what P3Dv2 fixed.

 

Just like the feeling of going through a tunnel when flying through rain or snow. Those textures are hard coded too.

 

 

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I was told FSX weather system doesn't play any role with ASN. :Thinking:

It does to a certain degree, its the Simconnect link between weather engine and FS that is completely borked in some areas, ASN bypasses most of that and directly sets things at a low level in the code.

That's good, but all WX generators are stuck with FSX's weather generation.  What I'm saying is there are certain limitations that cannot be overcome.

 

P.s.  I got the trial working not idea what I did.