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ActiveSky FS Released

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2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Approaching Charleston, weather is getting icky. 

 

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Flying with APLv2, AA now Bob? Me, Air Nelson in New Zealand, just can’t get myself to leave the awesome New Zealand scenery. 😉

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24 minutes ago, sloppysmusic said:

I just finished some testing flights for the FSW Lear and AS around ENSD in Norway. Similar scenery wherever yours is!

Well, Norway is of course the most beautiful country in the world 😄 I might be a bit biased though. 

I had a VERY interesting test session and I'd love to hear people's opinions. I find that showing a video will give far much information on how ASFS is compared to MSFS than screenshots and test. 

First I'll quickly edit a comparison doing a landing in the default 172 in strong wind. I'm on SU15, so that should demonstrate the new ground handling implementation as well. 

Btw - does the default C172 have CFD implemented? I'm pretty sure it does, just not 100%. 

EDIT: ENSD - on of the most fun approaches in Norway - and not far from where I live 😉

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1 minute ago, TomCYYZ said:

Flying with APLv2, AA now Bob? Me, Air Nelson in New Zealand, just can’t get myself to leave the awesome New Zealand scenery. 😉

Yeah, it looked great there, but I kept getting the same airports over and over, so moved to AA. I have 610 flights now with A Pilots Life.. 

 

 

 

20 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

EDIT: ENSD - on of the most fun approaches in Norway - and not far from where I live 😉

Wow. I just spent a few hours at ENSD practicing rnav circuits in the Lear from 26 to 26 then 80 to 08 as wind changed! I used historical weather yesterday for first link which lacked much snow for some reason hmmm

Yesterday using historical (random time of day)

(note DEFAULT ENSD here)

MSFS FlySimware L35 Approach OrbX ENSD

Today live weather:

note (OrbX ENSD/ENSG here)

Active Sky MSFS Live Weather 22/04/24 ENSD/ENSG

 

Russell Gough

SE London

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My only criticism so far is regarding the turbulence effects. Although I recognize they are better than default effects, they are still far below what I expected.

Intentionally flying a single-engine aircraft into bad weather, I expected very severe, almost uncontrollable turbulence. However, I only got light turbulence instead. All this with the turbulence, wind and windshear options in ASFS settings set to maximum.

It appears that turbulence effects have been reduced due to compatibility issues with some aircraft. It also appears that ASFS currently doesn't have microburst/windshear effects, which can be verified either by testing the 'Microburst encounter' scenario or manually triggering a microburst or windshear in Debug option. You only get a windshear warning, but nothing happens.

3 minutes ago, edu2703 said:

 

Intentionally flying a single-engine aircraft into bad weather,

Bad weather can have a very broad definitions! If we are talking about convective sigmet or line of frontal thunderstorms - yes no single engine GA should mess around with that. But then some IMC with  rain showers and high pressure should  not be a biggie for single engine IFR. Not much turbulence should be expected there after all. While for some folks it still could bel considered  as bad weather   and for others is not!

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A thought -  this thread is getting very long and cumbersome. Since we're now into testing and comparisons, I suggest someone open a new thread with  flight results etc and I can close this one.

 

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55 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

A thought -  this thread is getting very long and cumbersome. Since we're now into testing and comparisons, I suggest someone open a new thread with  flight results etc and I can close this one.

 

Thanx

I agree, 56 pages is enough. 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, vgbaron said:

A thought -  this thread is getting very long and cumbersome. Since we're now into testing and comparisons, I suggest someone open a new thread with  flight results etc and I can close this one.

Before you close it - should we the one below or open another one?

 

1 hour ago, sloppysmusic said:

Wow. I just spent a few hours at ENSD practicing rnav circuits in the Lear from 26 to 26 then 80 to 08 as wind changed! I used historical weather yesterday for first link which lacked much snow for some reason hmmm

Quick comment before the thread closes. 1) Very cool that someone from Daytona Beach flies in Norway 😄 2) There will be snow on top of the mountains well into summer - and of course in some parts throughout the year 3) Near ground level the snow is long gone here in the Southwestern part of Norway

Edited by Cpt_Piett

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This thread comes down to

Fact: There is no weather SDK

Fact: REX or ActiveSky can't do much of anything different than one another because of such

Fact: It's up to you to decide if you want to pay someone David Copperfield presets on steroids to be injected into your sim

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24 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Before you close it - should we the one below or open another one?

If this one is going to get closed, I'd suggest opening up a new ASFS Testing/Comparisons thread.

Looking forward to seeing your "VERY interesting test session" video!

10 minutes ago, styckx said:

This thread comes down to

Fact: There is no weather SDK

Fact: REX or ActiveSky can't do much of anything different than one another because of such

Fact: It's up to you to decide if you want to pay someone David Copperfield presets on steroids to be injected into your sim

You forgot the last Fact, AS look's a heck of a  lot better than default weather in MSFS. 

 

 

 

20 hours ago, HUSSAR said:

The user was in a live stream and perhaps flying on IVAO or VATSIM at the time. I heard ATIS from an online source; was his complaint that ATIS did not match ASFS? How could it? They're both from different sources. There were so many apps running, it was really hard to tell what he was doing right.

Before bashing ASFS, he should have taken the time to configure everything instead IMO. Don't blame ASFS for your mistakes lol.

Most of these Youtubes are full of word not allowed. especially the ones that live stream and spend half the time buttering up  to their viewers. 

 

 

 

16 minutes ago, mmcmah said:

If this one is going to get closed, I'd suggest opening up a new ASFS Testing/Comparisons thread.

Looking forward to seeing your "VERY interesting test session" video!

And if people are going to evaluate the program it would be nice if they actually owned it, instead of trying to imagine what it does. 

 

 

 

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