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Hi Vic, Got to chime in here, your absolute correct in your assessment, however the key word is depiction.. My self today had a metar saying light rain and broken clouds at 700 feet here in the UK. There was so much broken cloud it at slightly below and above it gave an appearance of over cast...no blue sky anywhere. The sim read the metar correctly the Depiction however was wrong it has rain and Hugh blue sky patches that even through shadows across the cockpit at ground level. I whole heartedly agree with you your never get real weather as all weather engines use themes which are part of the FSX P3d make up...AS does an ok job but will never be accurate in that sense. I see where Novation is coming from but alas this is at the end of the day a simulation computer program..and nothing more. Still never say never! Enjoy your flying.. All the best Mark

Novation, Very nicely shown and not to bad a comparison. For me I was departing EGKK the weather was as in my last post according to the metar, but there is no blue sky showing outside my window but shows in the sim large areas' in other words most probably in real life several broken layers at 700 feet appearing to give a solid overcast...although it is not overcast in that sense. I think AS16 will do a great job as does ASN but I think and may well be wrong that all weather engines load up themes and thats how it works. I do not believe it will ever be possible to see what we all see out of our windows as metars are updated all the time and depicted as such in the sim to the best of its capability's....but I am no expert so could be well off track......however it looks good as a program and it would appear to lighten the sim load overall... So a busy next few days then a decision to make! All the best

Have to agree with Novation here, just trying out the trial been using ASN for years...but it seems that it still uses themes set in FSX. weather here is broken cloud at 700 yes....light rain yes....but you cannot see any blue sky today but in the sim there appears great big blue patches as it always has done, so see no difference in the way it is presenting the weather from ASN. Performance does appear marginally better with AS16, whether using the new cloud package changes this theme issue I am not sure..will keep testing. all the best

Hi Martin, Many thanks for interacting with the FS community. Just a couple of questions please. Auto gen any chance we can have more life like building s than the current stock rubbish in FSX/P3D they look terrible and are out of scale. Also will the new DTGFS run in full screen mode? or will it be a hybridise full screen like P3D or just windows. I ask tjhis as it does have some reflection on how smooth sims run. kind regards to you and the team. Mark

Really pleased with this news, a good step forwards 64bit DX11..... Looking forward to seeing it in action.... enjoy what you fly..... Best Mark

You make a very good point there David! the gauntlet has been thrown down to DTG......roll on Feb and lets see what we see..... Cheers Mark

Oh here we go again! The DTG sim will not match P3D, will not match FSX will not be as good as....and so it goes on......why don't we just let it happen....DTG will make an announcement sometime in Feb......once WE ALL have an idea of what it will or will not contain then we can make a call....including me Just let it ride and enjoy what you fly now.....

Got to chime in here too, Just as el_kabong says...it has become boring.....nothing strinking is happening anymore... I to have to give up through a flight it just does not hold me there...maybe we are all becoming complacent. FS for me at this time has run its course. I have starting to looking at more strategy games but will go to the hanger now and again, If your enjoying FS still keep flying! if not have a break...

After reading this I went in and changed mine back to a False setting to try and see the differences. Very controversial I have always used wide since I got ms fsx but yesterday I used Normal or false and adjusted through EZdok...to be honest there is not a great deal of difference if the zoom is adjusted. The trouble is with any flight sim based on MS programming you cannot adjust the the vc without effecting the outside world zoom as well...and no one has found a fix for this I take it it must be hard coded? So when your VC looks great and life like the outside world is to near and the take off run and landing appear slow, zoom out and speed effects come back but of course you cannot read you instruments as your to far away. Pity there was not a way of separating the two views! Enjoy the holidays everyone! Mark

Just to say I run 1.185 and have followed the install procedure to the letter three times but no matter how it is done Ezdok causes a App crash in Windows Event Viewer as soon as it starts...check yours.....however it still seems to run. The only issue I have is it causes my Airbus to crash to desktop when using the DIR button. This is being caused by the ED software because it does not crash when the ED software is uninstalled . Others have a similar problem as noted on the sim forum but the developer cannot offer a solution at this time. I believe it is being updated peace meal and not full on, it may well not be compatible with Win 10 yet lets hope a solution is found. All the best Mark

Hi Elaine, Like the other I use ASN and REX soft Clouds not the full REX package. But as the other guys have alluded to it is set and forget, Plus both REX and ASN update well and for free. IMHO you cannot beat ASN for the weather it is the closes to real life within the limitation of the sim. Been using FSX SE with DX 10 for a while now and will stick with it until something new comes on the horizon. Enjoy what evet you fly!! All the best Mark

Hello Folks, Anyone having an issue with Ezdok version 1.18 upwards on Windows 10? I ask this as I keep getting FMGS.dll App crashes when using the DIR button on the Aerosoft AB. I also run EZCA and I noticed that when looking in the Windows Event Viewer as soon as I start up EZCA it generates an App Crash report even though it carried on working? I have uninstalled EZCA and tried the Bus without it and low and behold no FMGS crash at this time of writing even with the DIR being used. I have cleaned out the registry and put EZCA back on but alas straight away it reports an App Crash... Cannot live without EZCA I do not like the Aerosoft view system....any idea's I can try....I have tried putting in exclusion on Windows Defender but it makes no difference... Many Thanks Mark

Hi Folks, Just wanted to ask if anyone else is seeing weather lately that is not true to life with ASN. In the UK today we have a very low pressure and the clouds are scudding across the sky at a rate of knots lots of rain, however ASN just depicts this even with Enhance overcast select as massive clear blue sky patches with clouds and rain? The other day thick Fog here to and ASN just gave clouds to 300 feet then totally clear yet visibility was 100 meters? Anyone else not seeing a more realistic set of weather. I appreciate you will not see the life like weather that is out the window but this seems pretty of the mark. All the Best Mark

Crikey I did a flight in to Gatwick the other day when foggy and ASN just gave me cloud to about 300 feet then clear even though visibility was poor no issue re taxing ..was very disappointed... Mark

Hello all, Just wanted tio ask, and maybe ther is a real commercila pilot out there, what would be the most realistic cloud setting in ASn to select for Airline operation. Obviously we are governed by how much we can set in the sim due to processing power but what I would like to know is what is seen from a cockpit in the real world, in the sim if you set 60 miles min draw then you get a sudden edge and then clear so not that good IMHO. So if anyone can enlighten me that would be great. Thanks All Mark