December 24, 20241 yr ...Default weather! I flew from my hometown airport, KABE, Allentown, Pa., this morning (Christmas Eve) using default weather in MSFS and it was super DARK and everything, including the plane and cockpit, was hard to see. It had snowed over night and it was cloudy in real life. No snow on the ground! I quickly ended the sim because that would have been quite unenjoyable flying under those conditions. Then I fired up ACTIVE SKY for 2024 and went back to my airport. WOW. Snow everywhere, sky perfectly cloudy as it was out my home's window, and the cockpit and plane didn't suffer from the dark dullness. I really enjoyed flying in what were real weather conditions. By the way, I always fly in real weather both in MSFS and P3d. That's one of main reasons I love this hobby so much. As real as it gets! I really do love Active Sky for MSFS. Stan Edited December 24, 20241 yr by spilok
December 24, 20241 yr 53 minutes ago, spilok said: I really do love Active Sky for MSFS. Agree! And even though 2024 now have 24hr historical weather, sometimes I set weather to a few days ago (or longer) using Active Sky. One of my favorite addons! 7950X3D | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5
December 24, 20241 yr Totally agree. Everything is superior with AS: - Snow coverage (at least in my neck of the woods, Northern BC, Canada) - Multiple Cloud Layers - Haze/Fog depiction - Ability to set different time in the sim, but have real live weather (Asobo totally borked that one) - larger variety of cloud depiction - convincing overcast etc
December 24, 20241 yr And no weather fronts. Sadly... Greetings, Chris AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024
December 24, 20241 yr 15 minutes ago, Silicuss said: Totally agree. Everything is superior with AS: - Snow coverage (at least in my neck of the woods, Northern BC, Canada) - Multiple Cloud Layers - Haze/Fog depiction - Ability to set different time in the sim, but have real live weather (Asobo totally borked that one) - larger variety of cloud depiction - convincing overcast etc All of this. Especially clouds and the layering. My only issue was about a week ago the "smoothing" wasn't smooth at all. In fact, of all issues pertaining to weather in the sim....I want accuracy, yes. But with that is not having an abrupt change. Need gradual. I am talking like it going from cavok-esque to "OMG I am flying in IFR conditions all of sudden!" kind of change. I think it was fixed recently. Haven't noticed it since. 7800+4090+64ram Just Flight RJ, 146 and F28, Piper Arrows ---A2A Aerostar and Comanche---Black Square Starship, Duke(s), TBM, Bonanza/BaronV2, KingAir---FSReborn FSR500---COWS Da42---FX P180, HJet & VJet---FlySimWare Chancellor and LearJet---FlightSimStudio EMB175 &P2006T---Fenix 320---PMDG DC6, 737(700+900), 777---C22J---Milviz Cessna 310 & Porter---SimWorksStudios Kodiak, PC12, Zenith & RV14---BigRadials Goose---IndiaFoxEcho MB3339+F35.
December 24, 20241 yr I use both in 2024, and to be honest from my point of view i see very little difference. In 2020 undoubtably it made a big difference to default, but i'm not so sure, i certainly would'nt be saying everything is superior. but that's just my view on it. AMD Ryzen 7800x3d 64gb DDR5, Sapphire 7900 GPU MSSI Tomahawk AM5 M/Board. 1x 4tb Crucial M.2 SSD, 3x 2tb Crucial M.2 SSD's
December 24, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, spilok said: I really do love Active Sky for MSFS. I have recently put my GA in the hanger and have been flying the Just Flight RJ and the Fenix A320. ASFS is great for airliner flying, even better if a flight plan is entered - this is easy with the Simbrief flight plan import. CPU Ryzen 7800X 3D RAM 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz GPU GEFORCE RTX 4090 Monitor AOC AGON AG352UCG UltraWide G-Sync @ 3440x1440 Internal Storage 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD External Storage Three 4Tb HDs
December 24, 20241 yr Yeah I do really like it, just not to keen on how the weather looks the same in each direction - fully appreciate that’s not hifi’s fault as it’s a limitation they have to deal with, but not seeing different weather in the distance from what I’m currently overflying at all times is a bit of an immersion killer I struggle with. Best regards, Alexander Rietveld
December 24, 20241 yr I also use RealTurb which has significant in-cloud turbulence, something I haven’t had with neither AFSF nor default. 7950X3D | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5
December 24, 20241 yr Doesn't 2024 have two different time sliders? There's on on the custom tab that changes time but keeps the weather current, then there's the historical one on the the live tab that changes time AND weather, based on historical data 5800X3D. 32 GB RAM. 1TB SATA SSD. 3TB HDD. RX 9070XT.
December 24, 20241 yr 57 minutes ago, AlexMD11 said: just not to keen on how the weather looks the same in each direction - fully appreciate that’s not hifi’s fault as it’s a limitation they have to deal with, Were they able to show different weather in the same sky in any previous sims? i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
December 24, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, scotchegg said: Were they able to show different weather in the same sky in any previous sims? I don’t know, but think I may have read somewhere that they could in MSFS if they could take full control or have proper a proper API. Obviously it’s more that it’s major drawback against existing live weather within MSFS. Best regards, Alexander Rietveld
December 24, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Krakin said: Doesn't 2024 have two different time sliders? There's on on the custom tab that changes time but keeps the weather current, then there's the historical one on the the live tab that changes time AND weather, based on historical data I was of the impression that weather is attached to time in 2024 unless something has changed. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
December 24, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, AnkH said: And no weather fronts. Sadly... That's likely Asobo's decision, not to allow access to the weather engine of MSFS 2024, I've heard.... i9-14900K, 64G DDR5, 24G VRAM RTX4090 Velocity One Yoke and Quadrant LG rudder pedals Bluetooth earbuds
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