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Active Sky

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  • El Diablito
    El Diablito

    I gave up an AS a few months ago and went back to sim weather which is fine, especially when used with Rex Atmos.  I couldn't get past the horrid weather transitions in AS no matter how much tink

  • I exclusively fly with AS: - better cloud layer depiction  - more cloud variety - better cloud turbulences - better/real snow coverage - better lake ice coverage If I com

  • Damian Clark
    Damian Clark

    + All other AS weather data display/info/briefing/data tools based on the live weather data. Mostly useful for planning big picture view, briefing, weather lookup, etc.

1 hour ago, CFIJose said:

Are you serious Filou?

I've never had a disagreement with you here at AVSIM or the ORBX forum so there's definitely a language problem here. I'll ignore this post. No need to explain.

I am very serious.
You tell me that you have never seen a sudden change in the default weather. I have seen several! so
I must have thought that you had not flown enough to notice it or that your Active Sky settings were wrong. I shared my settings a few pages back.


I also do not have any sudden changes with my weather settings and Active Sky brings me weather with diversity and realism. Where exactly is your dissatisfaction in my comment?

"I've never had a disagreement with you here at AVSIM or the ORBX"

What does this have to do with my comment?

I am a free man, I do not make childish strategies.

19 hours ago, Bond said:

Maybe you had an external app forcing the transitions. I remember there were reports that some apps were doing that...

I'm not sure about that. Do you mean another weather related app? AS was the only one I ran at the time. Other apps I would have ran at the time were FSLTL, VAS ACARS, and the navigraph app. I thought the transitions were part of AS use anyway? tinkering with the settings to reduce the speed of them was the only way to tackle the issue? To be fair I never read the reports you mentioned so who knows if something was involved for me but I doubt it.

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4 hours ago, El Diablito said:

I'm not sure about that. Do you mean another weather related app? AS was the only one I ran at the time. Other apps I would have ran at the time were FSLTL, VAS ACARS, and the navigraph app. I thought the transitions were part of AS use anyway? tinkering with the settings to reduce the speed of them was the only way to tackle the issue? To be fair I never read the reports you mentioned so who knows if something was involved for me but I doubt it.

Here's an example:

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2 hours ago, Bond said:

Here's an example:

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Good info, thank you...  

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Does Active Sky work in the career mode as well. It seems like the weather in career mode is locked.

Johan Pienaar

 

So, just don't seem to be getting this to work.

MSFS 2024. AS 9115 is installed. Says MSFS connected. AS set to historical dynamic mode/August. It is January where I fly from. No change in the sim, for weather. No addons in the community folder, only ASFS. Live weather turned off in MSFS. ASFS checked in toolbar. When looking at weather tool in sim, still shows January date. Real time is checked, greyed out. Again, live weather is off.
Could you please help me with getting this to work.
Thanks

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On 1/7/2025 at 11:30 PM, Seth2021 said:

Its MSFS live weather + AS weather effects

+ All other AS weather data display/info/briefing/data tools based on the live weather data. Mostly useful for planning big picture view, briefing, weather lookup, etc.

Damian Clark
HiFi  Simulation Technologies

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7 hours ago, pinepix62 said:

Does Active Sky work in the career mode as well. It seems like the weather in career mode is locked.

Confirmed that all weather (and all toolbar/UI stuff including weather settings) is locked in career mode. It's all canned/forced for that specific scenario.

Damian Clark
HiFi  Simulation Technologies

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2 hours ago, 0stones0 said:

So, just don't seem to be getting this to work.

MSFS 2024. AS 9115 is installed. Says MSFS connected. AS set to historical dynamic mode/August. It is January where I fly from. No change in the sim, for weather. No addons in the community folder, only ASFS. Live weather turned off in MSFS. ASFS checked in toolbar. When looking at weather tool in sim, still shows January date. Real time is checked, greyed out. Again, live weather is off.
Could you please help me with getting this to work.
Thanks

Working with you in support on this. And for anyone else with anything similar, we have a few rare reports of this that look related to other add-on interference, but we have some potential solutions and a test build to try, so please open a ticket with us if you have the same issue. Thank you.

Damian Clark
HiFi  Simulation Technologies

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On 1/8/2025 at 1:52 PM, Flic1 said:

So in Passive mode you don't need to worry about any of the WX settings in ASFS or the transitions since you will still be using Live WX in MSFS.  Make sure in ASFS under 'WX Control' you choose Passive in the 'Sim Depiction Mode' menu.  It works better if you import a Simbrief flight plan but it's not necessary.  In MSFS, make sure you have Live WX enabled.  Passive mode is only going to add the turbulence effects (which it does well).

There's dozens of other features other than just turbulence, but agreed that most seem to appreciate the turbulence effects the most. This is always improving BTW, we've been actively working on this for a while with more improvements coming. Feedback always appreciated.

Damian Clark
HiFi  Simulation Technologies

Hmm, I used AS in both FSX and P3d, but before I spend my dosh on this for 2020 I have to ask myself, is the weather in 2020 that bad that I need to replace it? So far I have been unable to justify it to myself. I have heard many conflicting reports. Will probably get it at some point, but only after hearing nothing but great feedback. As was the case in previous sims.

 

 

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Howard
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12 minutes ago, Rocky_53 said:

Hmm, I used AS in both FSX and P3d, but before I spend my dosh on this for 2020 I have to ask myself, is the weather in 2020 that bad that I need to replace it? So far I have been unable to justify it to myself. I have heard many conflicting reports. Will probably get it at some point, but only after hearing nothing but great feedback. As was the case in previous sims.

 

 

If you like seeing nothing but Cumulous clouds, the weather is OK in FS 2020. Active Sky is just more realistic. 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said:

If you like seeing nothing but Cumulous clouds, the weather is OK in FS 2020. Active Sky is just more realistic. 

Hi Bob, sure, but am I right in thinking AS still can’t render cirrus or cu nims properly? Or am I expecting too much?

Howard
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My FlightSim YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@skyhigh776

10 minutes ago, Rocky_53 said:

Hi Bob, sure, but am I right in thinking AS still can’t render cirrus or cu nims properly? Or am I expecting too much?

All I can say, after many months flying with it, it just looks much more realistic to me. 

 

 

 

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