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Active Sky review

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Just now, lwt1971 said:


The MSFS core weather engine can definitely render stratus clouds but only in manually configured weather (the only cloud type I believe the core MSFS weather engine cannot render regardless of live or manual weather is Cirrus, AFAIK). MSFS default live weather is not able to feed the engine the right data (from Meteoblue + METER blending) for stratus I guess unlike pre-SU7, but add-ons like AS which basically just control manual weather certainly can.
 

OK, I always flew with live weather, that is why I didn't see any Stratus. 

 

 

 

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    It's very popular to hate me and Active Sky, and by extension, those who support me, our development team or the product.  I've mentioned (harped on) this before but that's also generated criticism so

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    I just watched that.  I was pretty surprised that his main critique of AS wx depictions was that the clouds were too flat, and lacked vertical development compared to MSFS.   This surprised me be

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15 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

OK, I always flew with live weather, that is why I didn't see any Stratus. 

and we were talking about live weather simulation not manual layers. Apples and oranges IMHO.

 

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8 hours ago, hvw said:

The maker of this video has a different opinion. It is remarkable that the flights over Europe he is showing are pretty much off compared to RL weather, where in the USA ASFS is pretty accurate.

Nice, thanks for posting this. I appreciate what he's done in this review. It pretty much shows how crappy the weather system is in 2020, whether it's depicted by the base MSFS or REX or AS. 

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7 minutes ago, Drumcode said:

Nice, thanks for posting this. I appreciate what he's done in this review. It pretty much shows how crappy the weather system is in 2020, whether it's depicted by the base MSFS or REX or AS. 

Which sim do you know that has a better weather system than MSFS? 

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It appears pushback toolbar can prevent asfs from working, ridiculous right?? How was this tested?

Program was hanging and I had to forcefully close it via task manager and re-open numerous times.

I have now maximum amounts of forced logouts for periode 24 hours and cannot use the addon I paid for in the first place. Joke right?! What is this...

 

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2 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

A bit premature judging from one specific single case, don't you think so?
Anyway what was the METAR for KDEN? If METAR didn't mention no clouds above 9000 (which it rarely does), AS has to interpolate other data or even make a plausible guess about clouds at that altitude. MSFS live weather can use the Meteoblue data, which for higher cloud layers is indeed more accurate than METAR data.
The general accuracy however depends on what you're looking for: Accuracy to real life outside the window (MSFS default might be better here) or accuracy to the METAR (AS might be better here).

Active Sky uses model data as well; they've mentioned both GFS and grib data.  Doesn't look like they just use METAR.

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6 minutes ago, Piotr007 said:

It appears pushback toolbar can prevent asfs from working, ridiculous right?? How was this tested?

Program was hanging and I had to forcefully close it via task manager and re-open numerous times.

I have now maximum amounts of forced logouts for periode 24 hours and cannot use the addon I paid for in the first place. Joke right?! What is this...

 

Posting on their forum will solve your problem , mostly likely. 

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, Piotr007 said:

It appears pushback toolbar can prevent asfs from working, ridiculous right?? How was this tested?

Program was hanging and I had to forcefully close it via task manager and re-open numerous times.

I have now maximum amounts of forced logouts for periode 24 hours and cannot use the addon I paid for in the first place. Joke right?! What is this...

 

You expect a dev to test his program with every available addon in the world or what? Especially since most people use GSX these days?

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20 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Which sim do you know that has a better weather system than MSFS? 

Well, I love MSFS, but the skies in XP12 looks more realistic - especially with add-ons.

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7 hours ago, JaseMelbo said:

I reckon with MS2024 around the corner, they missed the boat with this one.

Jase

Well what most forget unfortunately it's still a work around, because the WX api in MSFS is closed for 3d party, as long that's the case it makes no sense for me personal.
When they do I will have a in depth look. But besides that I don't want to have only global WX to begin with for obvious reasons, talking about realistic makes me smile o well 😉

As for turbulence and CAT I have great tool developed by a RW pilot which does the job, hoping for 2024 and changes regarding clouds and turbulence in MSFS plus up to date WX data.

Seems we have tornadoes wx systems to in MSFS 2024 curious how that one will pan out realistic of graphics....

To add I want to have sim connect running as less as possible programs and ultimately all in the sim framework.

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I am surprised, with all the posts by people wanting historic weather, I have yet to read one post by anyone using it in AS, 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

but the skies in XP12 looks more realistic

sometimes. but sometimes ridiculous. minecraft clouds etc. they will promote you to group captain status if you post this in their forum though. 🤣

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9 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I am surprised, with all the posts by people wanting historic weather, I have yet to read one post by anyone using it in AS, 

Is there some kind of obligation to post it here if one uses the function?

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I use historical weather all the time now. No more flying on the other side of the world and having coastal fog and low temperatures in the middle of the afternoon.

Just now, d.tsakiris said:

Is there some kind of obligation to post it here if one uses the function?

  I was just curious to see if people were using it and how it was working. If that upset you, I am sorry. 😲

 

 

 

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