ActiveSky FS Released

[Fiorentoni 4,367]

1 hour ago, mikeklimek said:

Quick question (forgive me if the answer is obvious and I'm just missing it):

Let's say I have the update intervals and smoothing set the way I like it and the last update occurs just prior to entering my arrival airport's airspace, i.e., a metar prior to the arrival airport.  When I make the approach to the arrival airport, will that airport's conditions reflect the last metar the app updated to, or the actual arrival airport's metar? 

Put another way, will I be landing with winds from the last metar update or the airport's metar?

I had a hard time understanding your question, but I guess I did now and will answer:

1) "Interval" is the interval between which METARs are updated. This might also induce a weather update, if the weather in the new METAR at your current location is different.

2) Weather however does not only change with the interval, but also with the location. So e.g. if there's overcast 100 NM out from the airport, but clear skies over the airport, the weather will slowly turn from overcast to clear skies while you're closing in on the airport. This is independent from when the last METAR was downloaded.

So for your specific question: The arrival airport will always have the weather that the most recently downloaded METAR (plus some interpolation from other data) says. No exceptions.

[Bobsk8 12,856]

5 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

I had a hard time understanding your question, but I guess I did now and will answer:

1) "Interval" is the interval between which METARs are updated. This might also induce a weather update, if the weather in the new METAR at your current location is different.

2) Weather however does not only change with the interval, but also with the location. So e.g. if there's overcast 100 NM out from the airport, but clear skies over the airport, the weather will slowly turn from overcast to clear skies while you're closing in on the airport. This is independent from when the last METAR was downloaded.

So for your specific question: The arrival airport will always have the weather that the most recently downloaded METAR (plus some interpolation from other data) says. No exceptions.

There is a setting in AS where you can block changes in your arrival or departure  airports if you are within a certain number of miles form t he airport or at the departure, also effects alternates. . 

[Alvega 2,125]

24 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

I guess they are ignoring it because it's clearly written on the product page that turbulence exists "in either depiction mode". So the answer is yes.

 

This is what is written in the product page about Cloud Turbulence:

 

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Is cloud turbulence provided?

Cloud turbulence is a work-in-progress, currently supporting higher-coverage layers and thunderstorm-related turbulence in ASFS Preset depiction mode. We are working on additional cloud detection capability to support cloud turbulence in sparser types of cloud layers as well as use within Passive/MSFS Live wx mode.

 

By reading this we get the idea it doesn't work in Passive mode, but if you say it does perhaps they need to update that.

[MrBitstFlyer 3,896]

7 hours ago, Sethos said:

Honestly, I think this goes the other way too. People around here seem almost hell bent on shoving it down people's throats and anyone who dislikes it, there's something wrong with them, a psychoanalysis of why they are wrong. People are hailing this as the second coming of Christ despite every stream, every video so far has shown extremely lukewarm or even worse results than default. Think there's people who try a little too hard to convince themselves this is amazing, because of the active sky legacy.

Discussing a new weather product is 'shoving it down people's throats'?  Pretty easy to ignore the thread. Describing it as 'the second coming of christ' is WAY over the top.

I've watched a couple of reviews, including comparisons to default, yet the negativity shown hasn't been my experience at all. It appears to me reviewers go out of their way to show AS in a poor light. It must be remembered that AS has been out a couple of days, but has already had an update - of course it is going to have some bugs.

Read the manual, adjust settings to taste, and enjoy some of the amazing new clouds and turbulence effects.  The flights I have made so far have all been positive, especially a better feeling of flying through moving air.

 

Edited April 20 by MrBitstFlyer

[Bobsk8 12,856]

4 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Discussing a new weather product is 'shoving it down people's throats'?  Pretty easy to ignore the thread. Describing it as 'the second coming of christ' is WAY over the top.

I've watched a couple of reviews, including comparisons to default, yet the negativity shown hasn't been my experience at all. It appears to me reviewers go out of their way to show AS in a poor light. It must be remembered that AS has been out a couple of days, but has already had an update - of course it is going to have some bugs.

Read the manual, adjust settings to taste, and enjoy some of the amazing new clouds and turbulence effects.  The flights I have made so far have all been positive, especially a better feeling of flying through moving air.

 

If I had a dollar for every reviewer that didn't even  bother to read the manual, I could go out for a 5 star restaurant dinner tonight. 😉

[Cpt_Piett 4,822]

Does anyone else find the installation process a bit complicated?

[Bobsk8 12,856]

Just now, Cpt_Piett said:

Does anyone else find the installation process a bit complicated?

If one click is complicated, I guess  it's complicated. 

[Sonosusto 703]

Just now, Bobsk8 said:

If one click is complicated, I guess  it's complicated. 

sheesh

[Cpt_Piett 4,822]

Just now, Bobsk8 said:

If one click is complicated, I guess  it's complicated. 

One click for the entire installation process?

[Fiorentoni 4,367]

17 minutes ago, Alvega said:

 

This is what is written in the product page about Cloud Turbulence:

 

By reading this we get the idea it doesn't work in Passive mode, but if you say it does perhaps they need to update that.

No idea what site you're reading, but what I quoted is writen here: https://hifisimtech.com/asfs/

[Sethos 4,538]

1 minute ago, Sonosusto said:

sheesh

Yeah, that's the entire tone around this. It's getting exhausting.

[edu2703 281]

4 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Does anyone else find the installation process a bit complicated?

Umm...no. Install Active Sky, login/register an account, install AS Connect and that's it, considering everything is handled by Active Sky installer/program.

What is the complication of this?

Edited April 20 by edu2703

[Sonosusto 703]

2 minutes ago, Sethos said:

Yeah, that's the entire tone around this. It's getting exhausting.

I mean, I love active sky (xp11 and now 12) but will likely opt out for msfs. Default is good enough. Unless, they can represent distant clouds etc but still....

The tone of this thread is pretty spicy

Edited April 20 by Sonosusto

[mmcmah 443]

6 minutes ago, Sonosusto said:

The tone of this thread is pretty spicy

Agreed, and it's on both sides of the like/dislike spectrum.

[Cpt_Piett 4,822]

13 minutes ago, edu2703 said:

Umm...no. Install Active Sky, login/register an account, install AS Connect and that's it, considering everything is handled by Active Sky installer/program.

What is the complication of this?

Bought it from Just Flight. After installing I needed to create an account. A lot of information was required for this. Think I needed to verify with a code I got in a email. Then the connector (forget what it’s called, not at the PC) needed to be installed. After this I was requested to install the latest update, so another install + “connector” install.

Just took a bit longer than most addons I’ve installed for MSFS so far, that’s all.

11 minutes ago, Sonosusto said:

The tone of this thread is pretty spicy

Indeed. Btw I sort of knew I would meet some resistance just by asking this simple question, in a completely non-offensive manner.

Edited April 20 by Cpt_Piett