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Hi friends,I'm sure this has been covered before but once again...if I choose via the options to auto-submit 'Random All' for both Full Sky and Cirrus Themes does that mean I will always get all new textures for every new flight I make even if I don't let ASv6 process before I start FS? And will all textures be randomly picked and submitted for every flight, ie approach lights etc or only the clouds? I remember in the previous version there was a checkbox you could check if you wanted all kinds of textures to be auto-submitted but here it only says Full Sky and Cirrus?I also remember from the previous version that the answer to my question was that I WILL get all new text…

Just wondering - have you any plans in the future to include a contrail option in the Cirrus selections, or anywhere else within the ASG engine??have a nice day,Neil :-)

Hello,I have a dual monitor setup. When I fly, FS is in my Main monitor, and my second monitor has my FSNav map, Squawkbox, Servinfo (occasionally), and of course Active Sky 6.FSNav makes itself dark after a set time, Squawkbox is black to begin with, and I can define custom colors in Servinfo (or minimize it, since I don't use it that often). I also have a custom windows color set that I use during night flying.While this all sounds very silly, having the second monitor be very bright (even with the room lights off) completely kills my night vision, not to mention my main monitor gets a bit "glarey" for lack of a better term. If I turn the second monitor off (or have …

Hi,I don't seem to be getting any wind in fs2004 while using AS6, is there a setting that should be checked?As I live near edinburgh, it has been blowing a gale here for the last couple of days but when I fire up AS6 & it downloads the weather it says in the decoded bit Wind=000 knts.Also, when I download the weather in AS6 & then start fs2004 the weather is sent to fs2004 & the clouds look amazing, but after a few seconds the amazing sky disappears & get covered in full grey cloud covered sky almost foggy.Any thoughts & help on the above?Mike

Hi Gang,when I start ASV it collects the data, and telle me the report for the closest station, it's DGTK 312NM from where I am starting the flight, EGBBis there any way of making ASV take the weather at start up from EGBB, or localy to the UK somewhere.thanks very much,

Hey all,I use ASV5 and nearly always the LDS-767.This is only a recent problem, but when i come into land, the plane seems to hover over the runway, and its nearly impossible to get it down.I dont know what i have changed or done to stop it hovering. The reason i am posting it on this forum is that i seem to remember reading something about this before, but couldnt find it when i searched.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thanks, Mike.

do the raindrops in the VC, halo effect, runway lights, etc. get changed when using a WX-Influenced theme?Thanks for the great work, just downloading and installing the D update now

Well, I have to tell you all I just finished my first flight using this new weather software. The view was "incredible" and the inflight weather was a total "blast". :-) This one is a big winner and I haven't even scratched the surface yet. Not enough hours in the day!!!!!!Cheers,Pierre.

Hiya allI seem to be having a problem with ASv6, When I import a flight plan before starting FS2004 so that it will upgrade all textures not just the clouds it seems to download the weather update very fast. Only takes around 3-4 seconds to get the 370k update. When it updates whilst FS2004 is running is VERY slow, it can take upto 3 minutes to pull the same 370k from the server. If I quit FS2004 the download goes back to its normal speeds.Is this a feature? or is something wrong? Apart from the time it take to download while using the flightsim everything else is fine. Once the download has finnished even the airport updates are nice and speedy.Apart from this small…

Hello,I must take a moment to comment on my last 24hrs. Yesterday, I logged into this forum and asked about the diff between ASwxRE and the new ASv6, as I just recieved a copy of weRE days after the new version was released.One e-mail and less than 24hrs later, here I am with a full version of ASv6 downloaded and installed already! Wow!!!!!!!!! What more can I say?Just awesome firstclass service.My utmost thanks and gratitude to the guys at HiFi Simulations.Cheers,Pierre.

Hi guys,Have been using ASV6 since before Christmas. Installation went very well, though I chose to leave ASVE in place so not sure I can now remove it. My question is how do I get Cirrus clouds to appear in ASV6. I have selected different cirrus themes in ASG til they're coming out my ears submitting them to FS each time but I never see any cirrus clouds in the sim. Am I doing something wrong. The same probably goes for other themes as it is difficult to detect changes when selecting different themes and sending them to FS. I used to use ICS in ASVE's active environment and I assume that the wx-related themes replace these. Is this correct?Mervyn

Firstly I will say that I have posted this question to the ASv6 support link, but thought maybe someone on this forum may have some ideas (or a dope-slap) for me.This morning, I purchased the ASv6 through the HiFi Simulations' website using the PayPal payment option. I would have preferred to use a direct credit card charge, but that option failed multiple times, so I chose PayPal instead. So I paid my $37.99 and got my receipts from both PayPal and from HiFi, but I have yet to find any link to the full-install, not upgrade, download. When I was finished with PayPal I had the option to "Return to Merchant", which I selected, but there was nothing there. I've paid my m…

I was wondering how everyone starts ASv6 before flying. currently, I start FS via FS Autostart, change weather to clear skies (no rate of change), load my flight, go to FSUIPC and go to normal weather/weather settings off, and load ASv6. Once Asv6 loads, I import my flight plan and off I go. I have also heard people downloading a flightplan in ASv6 prior to loading FS. Which way is better? The reason why I ask is because it seems like weather on departure is usually more consistant than arrival. I get more "pop-up" weather on arrival. I flew KPHX-KSNA last night with the PIC 737 and the arrival went from clear to foggy, to clear again. The report was for clear. W…

Hi;I'm running the latest build, 449. I'm still getting texture submit errors. Almost always involving Haze4 and Haze5. It seems to only happen when everything is set to WX-influenced. It looks as if the path to the texture being submitting is missing the folder just above the actual textures files ie.BlueishBrownishGrayishWhiteThese don't appear in the path being submitted. Here's an image capture of the error message.

Ok,This is by far one of the most excellent addons. I seem to be experiencing more problems than enjoyment lately though. It was working fine one day and the next I just keep getting "Main Thread Processing Error". What does this mean and how can I fix it. I wont even fly if I can't use ASV Damien. Withdrawl is fast approaching. Please help.Brian Officer

Hi! Just one question about ASV6 and FS2004. When I fly in an area where it should be overcast, and not possible to see the ground below because of all the clouds, and the weather on the ground is OVC and all fog with low visibility, I only see some few clouds when I am climbing or flying above the area, but when I am on gnd, the weather is correct... You know what can be wrong here? I want the ground to be covered with clouds when overflying it (when the weather is so) but all I can see when flying over it, is some few clouds here and there... Here you can clearly see the weather problem, when I am at gnd, the weather is set correctly, when I am flying over the airpo…

Today I downloaded the AS6 and I noticed this right next to the download link:"Expiry date: Thursday 09 February, 2006"Does this mean the download will no longer work after that day or what?

Hi Guys,I have set online mode in the options but I keep on getting the same date:KSEA 280656Z 04005KT 10SM SCT140 OVC200 09/04 A2974 RMK AO2 SLP077 T00890044even if I turn my system clock back and forward... or change locatin I'm always getting 28....Z as the date didn't check about the time and yes I have the correct system date ;) and yes fsrealtime has the correct date too ;) hope you can work on this one...Keep up the great work... look at this storm front!http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/138539.jpg

Hi,Why in some metar conditions at 4000 ft or above i can see the airport, runway etc but when i get close to land all is suddenly cloudly... im missing some settings?? im meant why i can see the airport, runway , etc etc if it so cloudy down there??Thanks In AdvanceRegardsTunkaMy ASv6 config file//ASv6 configuration file Build 446[General]WindowPosX = -11850WindowPosY = 1770DefaultWeatherFolder = E:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator 9ModulesASv6SuppressionCeiling = 4000SurfaceWindLimit = 10FS9Path = E:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator 9PersonalAppDataFolder = C:Documents and SettingsTunkaApplication DataCloudLayerLimit = 5LocalSuppressionRange = 100M…

Hi Jim/Chris,Perhaps you (or anyone else) can shed some light on the following. I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600 video board (256 MB), latest drivers installed and running FS9/AS6 in windowed mode. The haze that determines the visibility range builds up very slowly, line by line rather than whithin the "wink of an eye", as I was used to with my NVidia boards. Also cloud formations are building up pretty slow. Here, too, cloud edges are drawn in a verticaly line-by-line mode. I've tried to switch AA completely off, both in FS9 as well as in ATI's Control Center, however, to no avail. Also fiddling around with other graphics settings didn't help much. I have this Radeon 9600 bo…

I just downloaded the "C" update. Two problems that I have noticed.1. My active weather time stays at 041550z. Even when it accessed the secondary server.2. My active radar on the dropdown menu is gone.Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you need any system specs or file info.Thanks,Ken

I hope Jim, or someone, can help me with this problem: I an unable to produce real clear blue skies. This has only started since installing AS 6. I do NOT have "Depict FS Haze Layer" or "Fog Layer Generation" checked. When I load FS9 (without AS 6 running) and select a flight that was saved (and I've used many times) with clear skies, the flight starts with a haze effect. And, I am unable to clear it out, even when making sure that the FS9 World pull-down menu has the Clear Skies Weather Theme checked.When I select other Saved Flights that previously had clear blue skies, I get this slight haze layer that I cannot remove...Any ideas as to why this is happening, and how…

When viewing the FAA, NWS, and FSINN feeds, I find weather for the following stations (to name a few) but I cannot get them to come up in Activesky. Would it be possible to add these stations? All have been feeding weather to the internet for at least 5 years now, so I don't understand why Activesky nor VATSIM have these on their feeds, so I thought I'd bring it up -NZPG (Pegasus Ice Runway, McMurdo Station, Antarctica)NZWD (McMurdo Station, Antarctica)NZCM (McMurdo Ice Runway, Antarctica)KLNC (Lancaster Municipal, Texas, USA)In fact, after further searching, I can't seem to find any of the weather stations in Antarctica available for ActiveSky.Being that this is the ti…

Please check your network access and configuration. No Files found matching 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator 9ModulesASGraphicsworktexturesky_presunset2_7.bmp'I found this popup when I did close FS9 (Popup was behind FSNav window) I was flying in Full Screen mode. Need more informations?Any recommendation.

First of all let me say thank you very much, just flew into Munster (EDDG) in 8000m with low cloud, absolutely excellent, can't be faulted.BUT.......I am still really struggling with a hard horizon above 10,000ft.I have the vis option in FS display setup to minimum (60miles), and the AS6 option set to 59 miles. It all works fine at low altitude, but as soon as I climb up I get a hard horizon (regardless of what the closest ground station is giving).In AS6 it seems to be a little better (I get a nice layer of haze on the horizon, but where the bottom of the haze meets the ground there is a really hard line which does not appear at lower altitudes - will try and post a scre…