Seem to be experiencing some wicked juddering in the Q400. Flying LIME-LDZA and sat at FL210 with clouds at least 10,000ft below. Anyone else suffered similar? Due to Q400 FDE outside of FSX maybe?

Are you talking turbulence? CAT (clear air turbulence) is built into ASN.

 

If you run a networked connection, during the times you are encountering your "juddering", go to the map and hover your mouse cursor over your aircraft symbol. The pop up will tell you your ambient conditions including turbulence.

 

 

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Does the online check on ASN demo startup stop after purchasing a full licence? Asking 'cause I fly a lot offline (with "canned" weather). Thanks!!!

Quick question. Do you have to start ASN first or fsx?

 

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Are you talking turbulence? CAT (clear air turbulence) is built into ASN.

 

If you run a networked connection, during the times you are encountering your "juddering", go to the map and hover your mouse cursor over your aircraft symbol. The pop up will tell you your ambient conditions including turbulence.

 

 

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It was quite possibly CAT. I just didn't expect it to be so prevalent. Things have calmed down a lot more now.

@up for me it works when I start ASN than FSX and it links to fsx that way

Quick question. Do you have to start ASN first or fsx?

 

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The preference, per the manual, is ASN first. This is to avoid Simconnect issues.

Closed FSX a few minutes ago after a flight from Stavanger to Copenhagen.Had som IMC conditions at Copenhagen: 092020Z 17009KT 1600 DZ FEW001 OVC002 06/06 Q1026 TEMPO 1400 -DZ. Pretty amazing to break through the cloud layer at 200ft barely able to make out the approach lights just before DH. ActiveSky Next is a winner for sure!

 

Also tested the REALISM mode options while flying around some nasty thunderstorms in Kuala Lumpur earlier this evening, finally a challenging environment during these conditions!

Never tested it without having an internet connection at startup. I'm pretty sure you can switch to manual mode which doesn't use an online connection.

 

Vic

Two flawless flights with PMDG products so far.  One short flight (KMDW-KFLL) on the NGX and one long one (EDDP-KATL) on the 777X.

 

I can really tell the time the developer put into testing because this fells like a bug-free release. 

 

Congratulations!
 

I also hope to hear form PMDG as to whether or not the ASN will finally allow them to depit a realistic weather radar on their products.

 

Happy flights!

I just wish this would work for me, whenever I start AS Next I get "Registry Access Problem" error msg, no matter what I do I just can't get it to work. 

 

It's weird as every single previous version of AS has worked just well. 

 

Has anyone else experienced anything like this? 

 

//Never mind, it happened because I had my WMI service manually disabled due to some freezing issues I had with FSX before, enabling it made ASN work. 

I can really tell the time the developer put into testing because this fells like a bug-free release.

Although it's not 100% bug free - we spent a LOT of time trying to get it that way!

 

Thanx for noticing!

 

Vic

With PFPX exporting the OFPs to Notepad, it was very easy to copy and paste the SIGMETS to the OFP and print them.  I loved ActiveSky for this very purpose.  However it included the SIGMETS that were not actually needed.  If you guys can add the option of the SIGMETs in text format, I'd love it.  If not, that's okay. 

 

I've watched the weather here in real life and on the sim running ASN.   It seems to be very accurate.  In the other thread, I mentioned it did show no  overcast.   It wasn't long before the overcast returned.

Sure, we'll consider adding this back (improved). I'm sure it will be handy

 

Kostas Terzides

ASN developer

I downloaded the trial, loaded up at KIAD where the METAR right now is:

 

KIAD 092052Z 00000KT 1/2SM BCFG BR OVC003 01/M01 A3005

 

Sitting on the runway, lots of fog with various objects in the distance fading out vs distance from my aircraft.

Loaded up OPUS, view was pretty much the same.

 

That's about where the similarities with OPUS end.

 

Climbed out with ASN. At 300ft AGL I was in the clouds and couldn't see squat outside. It was a very fast transition but wasn't the "flick a lightswitch, now you see the ground now you don't" transition. Completely realistic.

With OPUS, the effect was very much like flicking a switch. Not that smooth.

 

With ASN, at 3,000ft I gradually and very slowly started seeing more detail as I emerged above the overcast above Washington. Total overcast too, with barely any performance hit.

With OPUS, as soon as I hit 3,000ft someone flicked that lightswitch again and BOOM everything was clear below me where a second ago it was soup.

 

That did it.

Opus...you and I have had fun. But your spot as #1 is done.

 

Going to finish my trial but just based on this one takeoff and climbout I'm about 90% sold.

I just need to see the turbulence in spring/summer stormy weather and check out the cloud smoothing transitions on longer flights.

Whatever HiFi did between AS2012 and ASN is like night and day. Two completely different wx generators imo.

Don't really care that ASN doesn't come with textures as some are complaining about...I use the HDEv2 freeware cloud/sky package which is better then any REX or AS2012 cloud/sky texture sets, and I've tried them all.

If you are brave, try to take off from La Paz right now (2230Z) in a small GA plane. It's terrifying in the Lancair Legacy, and I only lasted about a mile before a sinker finally ended my ill attempted flight and took me right down to the ground.

 

The things I have already experienced with ASN on just a few flights are incredible. It transforms the entire simulator. I no longer feel like I am on a set of rails. I am getting variable turbulence, truly gusting winds, downdrafts that terrify, updrafts that screw up landings, realistic effects on flight envelope, unpredictable ground effects during heavy winds... FSX just became a thrill machine, and way more realistic. This must be what pilots talk about when they warn about the dangers of weather, and I've never experienced that scary in-over-your-head-feeling in FSX before.

 

Bravo, HiFi

Since I am pretty new to FSX the only weather program I have used is REX. Now I have seen people say you can use the REX textures with ASN but my question is do I need to? Does ASN come with it's own set of textures that are better or are REX textures still the way to go with ASN?