I think it was just a cynical remark alluding to a famous bug in MSFS where the METAR showed the dew point to be higher than the actual temperature.

 

And btw. ASFS does not has this bug.

 

Learned something new today re: dew point. So, humidity right now in Singapore is very high (which I guess it is most of the time)

WSSS:
Wind 070° 7kt, varying from 030° to 130°. Visibility 9000m. light thunderstorm rain. Clouds few 1200ft, few 1600ft cumulonimbus, scattered 1700ft towering cumulus. Temperature 31°C, dew point 26°C. QNH 1006hPa. temporarily until 09:30Z: Visibility 4500m. thunderstorm rain. becoming from 09:40Z until 09:50Z: No significant weather.

Would love to check out the weather there with AS, but away from the PC.

windy.com

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Enhanced Cloudscape and Thunderstorm Depiction
Using ASFS Preset weather depiction, sky conditions control enables cloud types including multiple stratus, cumulus, towering cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratocumulus and cirrus variations. Thunderstorm scene handling also works to increase the visual realism, height and overall visual cloudscape of multiple cumulonimbus variations.

https://hifisimtech.com/asfs/

I’m looking forward to test wind strength, turbulence, wind shear when landing in both GA and airliners. I’ll use badbadweather.com to hunt for some really challenging weather.

 

 

Edited April 21, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

31 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

WSSS:
Wind 070° 7kt, varying from 030° to 130°. Visibility 9000m. light thunderstorm rain. Clouds few 1200ft, few 1600ft cumulonimbus, scattered 1700ft towering cumulus. Temperature 31°C, dew point 26°C. QNH 1006hPa. temporarily until 09:30Z: Visibility 4500m. thunderstorm rain. becoming from 09:40Z until 09:50Z: No significant weather.

Would love to check out the weather there with AS, but away from the PC.

It's there with AS, a proper storm in that cloud, default MSFS just fluffy white balls of nothingness!

11 minutes ago, MarcG said:

It's there with AS, a proper storm in that cloud, default MSFS just fluffy white balls of nothingness!

Thanks for checking! I guess that has to be with preset mode. Did you test turbulence and wind strength inside the clouds? 

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Optionally lock the historical time to your configured simulator time for easy date/time synchronization and control through MSFS.

If I understand this correctly, this will enable real-time AI traffic at the historical time.

Edited April 21, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

Ok second impressions after another couple of hours play this morning, still not done a proper flight yet (will only be GA I don't do Airliners) but hope too later so these impressions are simply with the drone cam and changing stuff in AS;

• For starters I think the Shift+Z App conflicts with AS, I loaded all my mods and AS wouldn't work, I took this app out as I rarely use it any more anyway and the next load AS ran fine with everything else I use.
• Historical Weather is a godsend, why oh why Jorg & his team couldn't get their heads around this I'll never know, fingers crossed for MSFS2024 eh!? Anyway, going back a few days and using my local EGKA as a base the Historical Weather worked like a charm, there was rain when it rained in real life, sporadic storms that we had last week were there, sunny spells when it was sunny spells out the window - marvellous! I look forward to flying in NZ & Aus with daytime weather now. NB; @Damian Clark When changing Date/Time the app kicks off downloading, could you possibly add a button like "Set Weather" or "GO!" or something? As I tend to change the date and it starts downloading before I've changed the time so it starts all over again, just a thought, low priority wish 🙂
• Thunderstorms oh there you are! As above I went to WSSS and also New Orleans and voila....storms a plenty, they're back at last. Only downside is one of the storms had a very flat top, there was no cell so it looked odd and not like a storm cloud at all. Living on the south coast of England I can see storms easily enough over northern France and those storm cells are massive. I'll await a big storm and view look again, perhaps the size of the cells matters to the depiction or something.
• I've set REALISM mode ready for my first flight later, looking forward to that.
• Graphically VR will be a test later on, but on the monitor sure the clouds don't look as pretty but they look realistic and that's all that matters to me. I'm soooooo fed up with seeing Asobos fluffy puffy white cumulus nonsense everywhere.
• Another wish (I may post this to the HiFi Forum as well later); In game toolbar window mod to change basic features including Historical Weather, that'd be very handy for VR users like myself 🙂
   

All in all best £22 I've spent on an App, love it.

12 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Thanks for checking! I guess that has to be with preset mode. Did you test turbulence and wind strength inside the clouds? 

no only drone cam, will fly in a storm later

31 minutes ago, MarcG said:

no only drone cam, will fly in a storm later

Great. Looking through the extensive features, I’m starting to think that the loss of default dynamic weather (fronts etc) is a small sacrifice. Also, reports in this thread re: transitions are promising (with the right settings).

Also, I’ll probably use preset mode most of the time to get most of the features. Some features, like up- and downdrafts will be interesting to test, as this proved a big challenge back in the day when practicing landings for my PPL. Drafts + thermal turbulence + x-wind + wind shear = huge challenge when landing a light aircraft.

Edited April 21, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

I don't get it: wasn' the big thing with MSFS that you could see the live weather in the distance? Now we're back to hammering the sim with presets, just like in FSX and P3D? Except for historical weather, what does this bring to the table that REX Weather Force doesn't, and how does this improve the Live Weather experience in MSFS?

7 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I don't get it: wasn' the big thing with MSFS that you could see the live weather in the distance? Now we're back to hammering the sim with presets, just like in FSX and P3D? Except for historical weather, what does this bring to the table that REX Weather Force doesn't, and how does this improve the Live Weather experience in MSFS?

That’s a very good question, and why I was hesitant with the purchase (already own REX). I’m sure people that have had a chance to test AS will elaborate.

At the current price, it might be worth getting just for the active air effects combined with default live weather (clear air turbulence, drafts, microbursts, gusts, wind variation and gust-related turbulence).

Edited April 21, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

19 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I don't get it: wasn' the big thing with MSFS that you could see the live weather in the distance? Now we're back to hammering the sim with presets, just like in FSX and P3D? Except for historical weather, what does this bring to the table that REX Weather Force doesn't, and how does this improve the Live Weather experience in MSFS?

Well the big thing was actually having live weather by default in the first place. I get your point, but in the end it's about the complete package: Depending on what matters to you, ActiveSky does so many things so much better than default MSFS, that it might be worth missing out on visible distant weather fronts with default for what you get with ActiveSky. That's ultimately down to personal preference.

41 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I don't get it: wasn' the big thing with MSFS that you could see the live weather in the distance? Now we're back to hammering the sim with presets, just like in FSX and P3D? Except for historical weather, what does this bring to the table that REX Weather Force doesn't, and how does this improve the Live Weather experience in MSFS?

That's why I continue to view third-party WX Apps as a lateral move at best. I've purchased REX WF back then due to erratic behavior from the weather servers. However, with time, the integrated weather system has significantly improved, leading me to forego using REX for over two years now.

It's essential for simmers to weigh the advantages and drawbacks of each solution and make their own informed decisions. Personally, I prioritize features such as weather fronts and smooth transitions, both of which I find well-executed in the integrated system. The fact that the built-in solution is both free and effortlessly integrated is simply the cherry on top.

8 hours ago, fppilot said:

Was temp 5°C and dew point 10°C?  LIke MSFS?

The problem with dewpoint is that there is no simconnect weather variable to store a value for “dewpoint”. There never has been such a variable in an MS-derived sim including P3D and FSX. 

In the case of MeteoBlue based LiveWeather, dewpoint probably exists internally in the model data and can be used in weather scenario creation, but there is no place to “put” the value so that it can be used by external apps via simconnect.

Almost finished reading through the whole manual. Some very interesting features:

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• Updrafts are caused by wind movement over terrain, and are realistically simulated. Relative strength of updrafts are influenced by the terrain contour and speed of wind at the level of terrain.
• Thermals are caused by heated terrain creating vertically rising columns of air. Thermal sizes, strength, decay and altitudes are influenced by the type of terrain and surface temperature.

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Up and downdraft rates, when flying in severe storms, can easily exceed the maximum g-force loading on the airframe and cause in-flight breakup/crash, and/or loss of aircraft control, depending on the aircraft used and the realism options enabled in the sim.

I’m no MSFS weather expert, but AFAIK many of the AS features are not available with default weather.

Testing the various AS options will surely take some time, but I’m tempted to make a first impressions video after I’m finished reading the manual (still haven’t had a chance to use AS).

 

Edited April 21, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

40 minutes ago, GCBraun said:

That's why I continue to view third-party WX Apps as a lateral move at best. I've purchased REX WF back then due to erratic behavior from the weather servers. However, with time, the integrated weather system has significantly improved, leading me to forego using REX for over two years now.

It's essential for simmers to weigh the advantages and drawbacks of each solution and make their own informed decisions. Personally, I prioritize features such as weather fronts and smooth transitions, both of which I find well-executed in the integrated system. The fact that the built-in solution is both free and effortlessly integrated is simply the cherry on top.

The default weather in MSFS is nice, but after awhile, is boring. Same thing all the time. AS gives you variety both in weather, and clouds. I can't remember the last time I saw a good lightning storm in MSFS with default weather, maybe a year and a half ago. Talk about unrealistic. 

In the few years Ive had MSFS2020, first flight today with ActiveSky was the first experience with thunderstorms and lightning.

 

Job done.