Active Sky review

[sultanofswing 58]

Beta 8881 posted.

[Damian Clark 1,272]

1 hour ago, edu2703 said:

Although some users say the opposite, that ASFS has a greater variety of clouds than live weather, in the cases I observed, it was different. Not only do ASFS clouds have almost no variation, but they also have very small variation in height, being almost flat, especially at the bottom and injected evenly as far as the eye can see.

This is most likely due to a bug/issue we had regarding altitude units on some language versions.  We have a beta update out that addresses this, if so.

[edu2703 281]

2 minutes ago, Damian Clark said:

This is most likely due to a bug/issue we had regarding altitude units on some language versions.  We have a beta update out that addresses this, if so.

Appreciate the response. I will test the new beta later.

[Cpt_Piett 4,786]

1 hour ago, sultanofswing said:

Beta 8881 posted.

- Added new option and feature: Enable surface wind attenuation cancelation - Forces expected wind speed reported to be depicted all the way to the surface/runway by doubling the speed(s) set for the surface layer. Causes ATIS to read back the doubled wind speed, but actual depiction will be correct. See user's guide for more details. Default OFF. 
- Increased depicted precipitation approximately 50% in most cases
- Improved humidity/visibility handling between 3 and 9SM visibility for better visible obscuration at lower vis settings (without overly obscuring at the mid/higher levels)
- Changed Depiction smoothing rate slider to request optional Apply/Resynth after changing option, to prevent potential transition anomalies when changing settings during an existing transition (an instant reload will occur when Applying)
- Reworked turbulence to allow much higher amplitude at higher Turbulence Scale Factor settings
- Increased turbulence effect strength approximately 25% in general
- Adjustments to wind layering and altitude calculations for more expected results at all elevations/altitudes
- Added intermittent checking of units changes by users to keep conditions data synchronized
- Fixed altitude units conversion issue when using French and some other non-English language settings in MSFS, would result in flat, ugly clouds, incorrect wind depiction, and wrong altitude in general for cloud and wind layers
- Fixed issue with surface gusts and variability not working properly

[mikeymike 366]

Are most of you using default settings? Not in passive mode. 

Or anybody have any recommendations on settings? 

Thanks 

Mike 

[sloppysmusic 261]

5 hours ago, Damian Clark said:

This is most likely due to a bug/issue we had regarding altitude units on some language versions.  We have a beta update out that addresses this, if so.

To update an existing ASFS installation, simply download and install the package over the top of your existing installation.

Is it now ok to do the above? Last beta recommended a full uninstall and reinstall is why I'm asking. 

[motishow 124]

Looking youtube videos this app is like Xenviro, but xenviro has better 3D clouds

both apps have historical weather and both apps send data to pilot2atc

Hope in the future upgrades , active sky will improve clouds, since that i will stay with Xenviro

[mpo910 2,112]

Hy to ALL using ASFS. 

I am flying mainly Fenix A320 and i´m very well known with ActiveSky in P3D for several years. I have very good experiences with AxtiveSky, unfortunately due the restrictions in P3D, not with P3D as soon as volumentric clouds implemented in P3D.

My questions are:

Is ASFS good to use in Combination with Fenix A320? So, does Fenix handle the implemented weather well?

Regarding:

1) Turbulence, Temps, Wind Requests for Climb, Cruise and Decent, Wind directions and Speed in PFD, Windshear (so, shows Fenix a normal behavior or overreacting on these wind and turbulance related topics)?

2) Is it possible to request ASFS METAR/TAF in Fenix EFB when using ASFS Live Weather? Or are these Fenix Functions INOP or are they even calling MSFS METAR/TAF?

I would like to use ASFS as I think this Addon is the absolut specialist APP regarding Weather in a Flightsim. But if it is Suboptimal for me, with Addons like FENIX, then I would wait to plunge in till FENIX got updated.

A feedback would be very welcome.

Thanks in advance!

Marcus  

Edited April 26 by mpo910

[ha5mvo 259]

3 minutes ago, mpo910 said:

Hy to ALL using ASFS. 

I am flying mainly Fenix A320 and i´m very well known with ActiveSky in P3D for several years. I have very good experiences with AxtiveSky, unfortunately due the restrictions in P3D, not with P3D as soon as volumentric clouds implemented in P3D.

My questions are:

Is ASFS good to use in Combination with Fenix A320? So, does Fenix handle the implemented weather well?

Regarding:

1) Turbulence, Temps, Wind Requests for Climb, Cruise and Decent, Wind directions and Speed in PFD, Windshear (so, shows Fenix a normal behavior or overreacting on these wind and turbulance related topics)?

2) Is it possible to request ASFS METAR/TAF in Fenix EFB when using ASFS Live Weather? Or are these Fenix Functions INOP or are they even calling MSFS METAR/TAF?

I would like to use ASFS as I think this Addon is the absolut specialist APP regarding Weather in a Flightsim. But if it is Suboptimal for me, with Addons like FENIX, then I would wait to plunge in till FENIX got updated.

A feedback would be very welcome.

Thanks in advance!

Marcus  

Fenix and AS get their data from different sources, however, if it's live weather the results you are going to get are pretty similar.

It's a different story, obviously, if you're using historic weather. In order for this to work you should ask Fenix developers to assign AS as a data source for weather in addition to what its currently using (NOAA I would assume) - just like FSLabs does in P3D

[mpo910 2,112]

6 minutes ago, ha5mvo said:

It's a different story, obviously, if you're using historic weather. In order for this to work you should ask Fenix developers to assign AS as a data source for weather in addition to what its currently using (NOAA I would assume) - just like FSLabs does in P3D

Thanks for this very usefull aditional topic!

[RALF9636 1,981]

3 minutes ago, ha5mvo said:

Fenix and AS get their data from different sources, however, if it's live weather the results you are going to get are pretty similar.

It's a different story, obviously, if you're using historic weather. In order for this to work you should ask Fenix developers to assign AS as a data source for weather in addition to what its currently using (NOAA I would assume) - just like FSLabs does in P3D

And like Pilot2ATC, FSHud and Simbrief already do in MSFS. Hopefully some more developers including Fenix will implement an option to use the ASFS weather in their products soon.

Regarding the winds aloft afaik the Fenix already reads them from SimBrief so these should match the ASFS weather as Simbrief already supports ASFS.

13 minutes ago, mpo910 said:

Regarding:

1) Turbulence, Temps, Wind Requests for Climb, Cruise and Decent, Wind directions and Speed in PFD, Windshear (so, shows Fenix a normal behavior or overreacting on these wind and turbulance related topics)?

 

I haven't noticed any issues with the Fenix after dozens of flights with ASFS.

 

[mpo910 2,112]

1 minute ago, RALF9636 said:

I haven't noticed any issues with the Fenix after dozens of flights with ASFS

Thanks a lot. That sounds good. 

[mobiel 74]

2 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

I haven't noticed any issues with the Fenix after dozens of flights with ASFS.

 

Do you use the default AS settings?

[RALF9636 1,981]

Just now, mobiel said:

Do you use the default AS settings?

Currently I do.

[mpo910 2,112]

12 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

Currently I do.

How to update my AIRAC in ASFS? Do you know this? I use Navigraph Subscription