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Did you have cloud and CAT turublence set to 100% in RealTurb? I'd imagine it would just double up then.
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I have made several flights with turbulence by both ASFS and Realturb during the Beta. There were no issues. Realturb and ASFS enhance each other. I found no adverse effects of using them together.
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ActiveSky FS Released
Dreamflight767 replied to DMullert's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Thank you for bringing this product to MSFS. Many, many years ago (while using another sim platform), I remember one day flying and thinking how boring it was using the same generic, bland, VFR weather over and over again - that sim either didn't have weather or it didn't work well, can't remember. I decided to do a quick internet search and discovered Active Sky. I bought Active Sky and it blew my mind away. I remember that day and how much adding real world weather to my flying made me fall even more in love with this hobby. The sounds, the color of the sky, the clouds just sucked me in, I was amazed. I'll always be grateful to Active Sky for that day...or, maybe I should be mad because of all the $$$$ I've spent on simming since. LOL. -
Yup! I recall a youtuber who got a free copy of MSFS2020 AND a Honeycomb Alpha yoke - didn't have a clue and decided it didn't work. This :streamer" also doesn't have a clue,
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Just watching the excellent Q8 review....Looks pretty good. I have always hated those volcanic ash clouds of MSFS..... They really screw up with the weather after early days.
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Quite possibly. Same end result, unfortunately. I never had the FSL, but do remember having to turn down some settings in ASP4. Will continue to wait on any progress by HiFi.
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"Your Data could not be synced with cloud" message
Fielder replied to Soulflight's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
This notification window had a choice option with 2 boxes to check: "your data cannot be synced with the cloud". (Steam version of MSFS). I see this notification every 3 or 4 months. And this notification gives you a choice on how proceed. -
Different interpretation: Fenix flight model was designed to work with default weather and winds, which aren't entirely accurate, so the flight model now operates differently under alternative conditions?
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One of the things I really miss in MSFS is the lightning and thunder storms. I got my PPL in South Florida, and they were always around. I think for that alone, AS is worth it.
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Think you may be right on this. REX WF and ASFS provide much nicer variety of clouds (and Thunderstorms are present), but seeing weather fronts at FL300+ is an advancement that MSFS has created that I don't wish to lose. Been done and failed. Now filed under 'Not planned'. Think this is partly due to a misunderstanding of what devs / flight simmers want when they say 'open up the API' and protecting the commercial contract between MS and Meteoblue. It wouldn't be the first time there's been a misunderstanding at the senior level of the MSFS team and requests regarding weather.
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Sorry, but this is not doable. Not sure why you need this to fine tune the TOD calculation. I'd rather make a profile for each flight scenario (light, mid, heavy or short and far). Alex -
To me it's like saying, you would like to study all the material to get a pilots license, but you don't have the time for that, so you will just take off and see what happens.
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I don't think the Fenix is "not compatible" to certain weather. Turbulence / storm was likely the culprit (MSFS default is very lenient in those), but you can always scale down those effects in ActiveSky. It was very similar on P3D, the FSL airbus would sometimes disconnect AP if turbulence was too heavy. People just scaled the effects down and all was fine. Also this will only be true for the heaviest of turbulences, so not a daily occurence.
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You should deactive RealTurb, since you cannot turn on terrain turbulence only and will therefore have cumulated wind turbulence. I've already emailed him though so he updates it and enables the use of *only* terrain turbulence.
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Another thing from Chewwy's stream, Active Sky is showing snow where it should be snowing IRL, but in MSFS live weather it isn't snowing.
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You could always "situationally" use AS weather when there's storms, thick clouds, thunderstorm etc. and leave it in passive mode for the rest of the time (using MSFS live weather). Doing that you'll always enjoy the much improved turbulence effects and in the above mentioned situations also the better weather depiction.
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AS working fine for me, together with flow. Still experimenting with both live weather modes. But, my question remains: what about the turbulence additions by other apps, FSRealTurb CAT and the low alt turbulence options of FSRealistic. I used both. What should i better deactivate now? Are there any known conflicts?
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One of the best aspects of MSFS is not needing a slew of addons to get things 'working'. P3D was a nightmare for me: spent more time tweaking than flying. I don't have infinite time to spare. Good luck to those who want this and the developer, but I've yet to see anything that would suggest that this is a useful addon (beyond the holy grail of historic weather.)
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Previous discussion.
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Low oxygen levels causing hypoxia at high altitude? Wake turbulence? Super stall on high tail jet? Copilot flatulence? Looking forward to more info and in an hour or so I will be testing it myself 😎
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Thank you for this...hmmm, it is making me wonder if activesky might be more suited then for low level GA flying, since you aren't going to see fronts in the same way as you would at 30,000 feet. What a shame we have to make this kind of choice. It feels like a real limitation from the get-go with MSFS...I'm still not understanding why they can't look at this or changing to a different weather source provider? Maybe their contract with Meteoblue was for like 10 years or something so they can't change... In any case, I wonder where we can vote / post on the MSFS forum specifically to rant about this chronic MSFS limitation of not opening up the weather api?
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Yes, the manual would be a good start, then the benefit will be clearer. Look at the product page to see the extent of the features. Just completed my first flight with ActiveSky - the visibility and turbulence effect are very good.
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Q8 Pilot on his stream said ASFS "broke" the Fenix A320. Needed to "turn it off for the Fenix to fly like it should." 😔 I really liked the weather at SKBO and OPIS that was generated by ASFS on Chewwie's stream, but the Fenix not being compatible makes it a no-go for now, at least.
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just rewound and I've not seen clouds/rain/lightning like that since pre-SU7 (if then!), looked much better than what Asobo Live Weather depicts for storms when it doesn't even have lightning....
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MSFS live weather is a LOCAL weather model, so it can show weather in the distance. ActiveSky, REX and xEnviro are global weather models (because ms hasn't open up the weather to third parties), therefore they will not show clouds on the horizon - ActiveSky is doing what it is supposed to do.
