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Active Sky vs. Default

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Still old school  in fsxse and AS with soft clouds.. Incredibly realistic 

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  • Been using Active Sky since it was released. Like the different varieties of  clouds instead of cumulous only, lightning and thunder and realistic turbulence. 

  • Peter Z KCLE_EDDN
    Peter Z KCLE_EDDN

    Disclaimer: I used to beta test for Damian for about 15 years. I’m solely an IFR flyer in MSFS, and use it to practice real IFR planning, procedures and flows for my PPL/IR. I’m still comfortable to s

  • I'm using active sky in passive mode. So it only draws clouds while feeding weather directly from MSFS. It's nice to navigate between "cells"    

I can really no longer compare the two. I have been using AS exclusively for months with high satisfaction level so have no base now for comparison.

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ASFS is Pro, default weather is a nice try...

Basically the "technical" guys at ASOBO don't have much insight into weather, and even the fact that they gather privileged data from Meteoblue didn't help that much.

Problem is, they didn't open their weather engine to 3pds, for someone with the right knowledge and experience to fine tune it or simply redefine the merge between Meteoblue model feeds and observation, etc...

The worst, in as far as I am concerned, is that at least until now no one knows if 2024 will differ that much.

There are limitations also in some rather important aviation weather parameters and how they're treated in MSFS 2020, like visibility. And again on their last talk about 2024 they were very vague about how it'll get fixed for the new sim version.

I will wait and see...

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