1 hour ago, pilotter said:

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so than I would really like to know what is the benefit of this program? I will have to look into more reviews ( serious ones ) and the manual.

Yes, the manual would be a good start, then the benefit will be clearer.  Look at the product page to see the extent of the features.

Just completed my first flight with ActiveSky - the visibility and turbulence effect are very good.

7 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

MS hasn't opened up the weather to third parties, so all weather addons will do as you describe.  The selling point for these apps is the better cloud depiction.  MSFS live weather is generally a collection of cumulus.  The addons can create better looking cumulus as well as stratus and good overcasts.  I would love the best of both worlds, but currently you have to make a choice between MSFS (local weather model - can see fronts approaching & poor cloud depiction in many cases), or addons (global weather model - fronts transition as you approach, but far better cloud depiction).

Personally, I prefer a more realistic sky, so I have been using REX, but now using ActiveSky to compare with REX.  Transitions these days I feel are done smoothly, so I am not bothered by them.  However, If seeing local weather and thus fronts in the distance, you are stuck with MSFS live weather and its often poor clouds (in comparison to the addons).

Thank you for this...hmmm, it is making me wonder if activesky might be more suited then for low level GA flying, since you aren't going to see fronts in the same way as you would at 30,000 feet. What a shame we have to make this kind of choice.  It feels like a real limitation from the get-go with MSFS...I'm still not understanding why they can't look at this or changing to a different weather source provider? Maybe their contract with Meteoblue was for like 10 years or something so they can't change...

 

In any case, I wonder where we can vote / post on the MSFS forum specifically to rant about this chronic MSFS limitation of not opening up the weather api?

8 minutes ago, Maxis said:

what is an air effect

Low oxygen levels causing hypoxia at high altitude? Wake turbulence? Super stall on high tail jet? Copilot flatulence? 

Looking forward to more info and in an hour or so I will be testing it myself 😎

One of the best aspects of MSFS is not needing a slew of addons to get things 'working'. P3D was a nightmare for me: spent more time tweaking than flying. I don't have infinite time to spare.

Good luck to those who want this and the developer, but I've yet to see anything that would suggest that this is a useful addon (beyond the holy grail of historic weather.)

AS working fine for me, together with flow. Still experimenting with both live weather modes.

 

But, my question remains: what about the turbulence additions by other apps, FSRealTurb CAT and the low alt turbulence options of FSRealistic. I used both. What should i better deactivate now? Are there any known conflicts?

27 minutes ago, JughedJones said:

Yeah, the lightning and thunder in Chewie's stream looked really good. It just looked good in general. 

Is that enough for me?  Maybe? 

You could always "situationally" use AS weather when there's storms, thick clouds, thunderstorm etc. and leave it in passive mode for the rest of the time (using MSFS live weather). Doing that you'll always enjoy the much improved turbulence effects and in the above mentioned situations also the better weather depiction.

Another thing from Chewwy's stream, Active Sky is showing snow where it should be snowing IRL, but in MSFS live weather it isn't snowing.

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3 minutes ago, Soulflight said:

AS working fine for me, together with flow. Still experimenting with both live weather modes.

 

But, my question remains: what about the turbulence additions by other apps, FSRealTurb CAT and the low alt turbulence options of FSRealistic. I used both. What should i better deactivate now? Are there any known conflicts?

You should deactive RealTurb, since you cannot turn on terrain turbulence only and will therefore have cumulated wind turbulence. I've already emailed him though so he updates it and enables the use of *only* terrain turbulence.

14 minutes ago, F737MAX said:

Q8 Pilot on his stream said ASFS "broke" the Fenix A320. Needed to "turn it off for the Fenix to fly like it should." 😔

I really liked the weather at SKBO and OPIS that was generated by ASFS on Chewwie's stream, but the Fenix not being compatible makes it a no-go for now, at least.

 

I don't think the Fenix is "not compatible" to certain weather. Turbulence / storm was likely the culprit (MSFS default is very lenient in those), but you can always scale down those effects in ActiveSky. It was very similar on P3D, the FSL airbus would sometimes disconnect AP if turbulence was too heavy. People just scaled the effects down and all was fine. Also this will only be true for the heaviest of turbulences, so not a daily occurence.

29 minutes ago, LondonController said:

I've been in the game for far far too many years now to take criticism to much to heart, and most is water off a ducks back. But I do appreciate a constructive conversation with yourself tonight. I don't think people quite realise how many hours us streamers put into creating and preparing content, I would love to have a bit more time to read manuals... but there is just isn't enough hours in the day lol.

Wish you all the best! 🙂

To me  it's like saying, you would like to study all the material to get a pilots license, but you don't have the time for that, so you will just take off and see what happens. 

7 minutes ago, Purr said:

wonder if activesky might be more suited then for low level GA flying, since you aren't going to see fronts in the same way as you would at 30,000 feet.

Think you may be right on this.

REX WF and ASFS provide much nicer variety of clouds (and Thunderstorms are present), but seeing weather fronts at FL300+ is an advancement that MSFS has created that I don't wish to lose.

 

13 minutes ago, Purr said:

where we can vote / post on the MSFS forum specifically to rant about this chronic MSFS limitation of not opening up the weather api?

Been done and failed. Now filed under 'Not planned'.

Think this is partly due to a misunderstanding of what devs / flight simmers want when they say 'open up the API' and protecting the commercial contract between MS and Meteoblue. It wouldn't be the first time there's been a misunderstanding at the senior level of the MSFS team and requests regarding weather.

18 minutes ago, RichieFly said:

One of the best aspects of MSFS is not needing a slew of addons to get things 'working'. P3D was a nightmare for me: spent more time tweaking than flying. I don't have infinite time to spare.

Good luck to those who want this and the developer, but I've yet to see anything that would suggest that this is a useful addon (beyond the holy grail of historic weather.)

One of the things I really miss in MSFS is the lightning and thunder storms. I got my PPL in South Florida, and they were always around. I think for that alone, AS is worth it. 

21 minutes ago, F737MAX said:

Q8 Pilot on his stream said ASFS "broke" the Fenix A320. Needed to "turn it off for the Fenix to fly like it should."

Different interpretation: Fenix flight model was designed to work with default weather and winds, which aren't entirely accurate, so the flight model now operates differently under alternative conditions?

Just now, kevinfirth said:

Different interpretation: Fenix flight model was designed to work with default weather and winds, which aren't entirely accurate, so the flight model now operates differently under alternative conditions?

Quite possibly. Same end result, unfortunately.

 

7 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

you can always scale down those effects in ActiveSky. It was very similar on P3D, the FSL airbus would sometimes disconnect AP if turbulence was too heavy.

I never had the FSL, but do remember having to turn down some settings in ASP4. Will continue to wait on any progress by HiFi.

Just watching the excellent Q8 review....Looks pretty good. I have always hated those volcanic ash clouds of MSFS..... They really screw up with the weather after early days.