MrBitstFlyer

This is one of the Tomahawks I trained on at Panshanger in the UK. Calling @ryanbatc 👍🙂

🙂👍 Double post

This question is asked and answered many times. ASFS, Rex or xEnviro will not show fronts in the distance. These products will make several transition steps as the front is approached. You will see high cloud, lower stratus type, then cumulus and eventually low cloud, low Vis and rain. The only bit you will miss out on is cloud in the distance. The rate the weather transitions is selectable by the user. At low settings the weather changes slowly. In my personal view, MSFS no longer shows fronts in the distance, it just shows cumulus on the horizon. Very different in the early days when fronts were fantastic. Products like ASFS are now very worthwhile, because the weather around the aircraft is displayed more convincingly.

Expensive😆🙄😮

MSFS live weather creates fewer clouds types than ASFS.

No wonder you find default live weather good 🙂

No, I'm on day 2 of a three week holiday in Scotland 😁

I feel the same. The local weather model was a game changer with MSFS. I would not have considered a weather addon until live weather took a great big step backwards. Clouds became 'cloud' - cumulus. Now, there is an unfortunate choice to be made - see the marine layer in the distance or have more authentic clouds & turbulence for the entire flight.

A 'tsunami' of patching? I think that phrase is just like the early release videos criticising ASFS - a big over reaction to the slightest thing. I think the reality of ASFS is quite simple. 1 - MSFS has a local weather model. ASFS has a global weather model that requires transitioning between weather areas. 2 - Transistion timing in ASFS can be adjusted. There is no need whatsoever to have clouds popping into existence or out of it. 3 - MSFS clouds are mostly cumulus based. ASFS can display more cloud types. 4 - MSFS turbulence effects feel unnatural. ASFS turbulence feels more natural. 5 - ASFS is very reasonably priced. Just buy it and experience it yourself, AFTER reading the manual. Lastly, many people have been acclimatised to over dramatic MSFS clouds, where the folks at HiFi are more interested in clouds you may actually see on planet earth.

I almost find it hard to believe. From my first flight with ASFS I have seen many cloud types, and the cumulus itself looks more natural to me in ASFS.

Many on Avism have flown a real aircraft. My experience is the Piper Tomahawk, Piper Cherokee and Cessna 172. ASFS turbulence feels more natural, like it is the air moving the aircraft, where MFSF turbulence feels like 'pre-packed rythmic movements' IMHO.

The turbulence effects in ASFS are far better than default.

It's a cheap addon, just buy it and get the features it does better than MSFS, as well as the option of default live weather. I adored MSFS weather in the early days, but they ruined it. ASFS, Rex and xEnviro bring back the clouds missing from live weather, as well as the great turbulence effects in ASFS. On balance I get more satisfaction seeing a better depicted sky, than I do seeing local weather in the distance

The ActiveSky release give you features not present in default live weather. However, if you want to fly with a local weather model, you still can! I don't understand this negativity towards weather add-ons because they use a global model. You have the best of both worlds - MSFS local weather model with the world full of cumulus and unrealistic turbulence, or an addon like AS that displays many more cloudtypes and has better turbulence effects.

Nah, I only posted over there a few times in the past year.