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HI: I am in the government research community and need to be able to consistently duplicate in one location a short line of thunderstorms for a simulated aircraft to deviate around. (We have a full sized B737NG cockpit that runs FSX with Simavionics/FDS hardware) This program appears to have the capability to create consistent user defined weather, but I can't for the life of me get towering cumulus clouds to appear. What does show up on the screen is quite good, great lightning, etc., but very little vertical development. Am I missing something or should I look elsewhere? Thanks for any advice! Alan

It has come to my attention that some people took offense to my use of the term "cracker" in the thread AS2012 Sp News. To clarify, the user I was exchanging posts with was Graham3278 (he has since changed his id to FeeBee). My reference was to Graham Cracker, certainly not any sort of racial or ethnic slur. So if you were offended, please understand my intent and please accept my apologies! Thanx, Vic

I remembered user "Guenseli" found a solution for that issue, that imc conditions will get shown. Guenseli´s original post: http://forum.avsim.n...imc-conditions/ Guenseli´s solution: I had today a look into the AS2012 file and there is the same problem. It seems to be also necessary to modify the file like at ASE long time ago (?).

So I submitted a ticket yesterday because a reinstall of AS2012 would neither accept the key it came with, or the originally purchased ASA key from a few years ago. It's been 24 hours and the ticket is still in the "unassigned" category. How long does it usually take for them to fix a license problem?

Hi. There is 03 options depiction modes: Standart, Smooth and DWC. What the differences, advantages and disadvantages between them?

Dear fellow simmers, After a couple of years I have finally time again to get back into simming. It goes without saying that I am having a ball. I started out with fs9 for the moment updated to fs9.1. I added glacier bay v2 and am just enjoying the scenery with the default Cessna before starting to add all the other addons I have. Since I had an older version of Active Sky I decided to purchase ASE and it seems to work very well. However a problem came up. When sitting on the tarmac I can clearly see a visibility layer above my aircraft starting around 50ft above the ground. Also when I land I will have a certain visibility until 50 ft above ground, then I end up und…

Is there a way for me to read the Air temp value that ASE sends to FSX to use for other puposes? I am in the process of converting a Cessna 172 fuselage into a flight sim cockpit. A link to my website and blog are in my signature line below if you are interested in looking at my project. One of the hardware items I want to enable in the sim pit is the outside air temp thermometer. I snagged a thermometer and the air vents from a 172 and will be driving the thermometer needle with a servo motor but I have not figured out how to pull the Outside Air Temp value yet. Most of my other hardware is pulling it's data from FSX via FSUIPC, but as best I can tell, FSX…

Hi folks! I've searched for answers here, but none of the posts returned seems to hit the nail on the head. I apoloqize for poor searching skills, and I hope no one expects me to go through all the posts since AS2012 was released. But I have to ask some very basic questions how to use AS2012: This was posted in another thread by Vic (Beta Tester and altogether very knowledgeable guy it seems ^_^ ) First question is to clear up the following misunderstanding on how DWC operates, the mode I thought was "native" and thus default mode for AS2012: I thought DWC changed the weather as my flight progresses? Continuously comparing the aircraft position with …

Thought I'd do a video demo of how quick and in-depth the weather features are of this excellent addon. http://xsimreviews.com/2012/08/09/active-sky-2012-for-fsx/

Hello HIFI! I have set the Time and Date to 6.August 2010 in FS9. I have make an Download of historical weather and its saved as "2012-08-06_06Z.Wx" I Open this File with ASE. Active Time and Date in ASE did shown as: 6-08-12 8:00 LOCAL Time. I get the window, wich shows me that "Online Weather" is now Off. Pressing OK. But the Weather shown always like actual weather. so i get the actual metar shown: LOWL 201820Z with Fog now... also in TAF: LOWL 201115Z .... the actual TAF is shown. Depict is acual weather with fog (now in LOWL 21:00 LOCAL 20.Oct.2012) Why ASE did not depict the historical Data i have loadet? Help please, there are many errors: …

Hey all I was wondering you may help me with a small problem I'm having with Active Sky 2012 & I'll try & It explain it as best as I can, When I first start Active Sky & I want to fly from Melbourne (YMML) to Sydney (YSSY) I am able to set up my flight plan as normal & get a weather report from my departure location. However when I want to fly from a different location say from Mildura (YMIA) to Melbourne (YMML) I'm not able to get the weather for my new departure location there is a box called Lock on Closest & when I un tick that it's the only way I can get the weather for the new location but then It doesn't load Into FSX. I see that there is a…

Has anyone ran 2048 resolution with the clouds? I am running 1024 across the board with no problem and was thinking about trying it. Thanks, Ron

Hi I use AS2012 on a networked client computer via simconnect, how does FSX get the AS2012 'cloud' graphics ? Do I have to install another copy AS2012 on the FSX computer to get any high res cloud graphics. Thanks, Glen

I'm trying to get a key resent to me from Hifi. I emailed support 2 days ago and nothing. I remember Jim getting those to me in minutes. Is Jim still around? I don't see any posts from him here. Cheers, Mark

any link or some pics would be nice..

Hi, does XPAX work with P3D?

Wow again and again getting the error code "Weather load error: The magic number in GZip header is not correct. Make sure you are passing in a GZip stream." This is really starting to slow things down at least fix it when this happens so we can use old weather to fly. This has happened several times last few months are they getting ready to bail on us? David Hawley

The last couple of times I have tried to start Active Sky 2012 - I get an error message - something along the lines of missing root element. I reinstalled thinking something was corrupted but no joy. Does this ring a bell for anyone - help is appreciated.

I just purchased AS 2012. Do I need to download the update? Thanks, Ron

I just installed AS 2012 and on my first flight my VASI lights showed me being high right down to the runway. Please Help? Thanks, Ron

I am thinking about buying Active Sky 2012. I love to fly Real World Weather but all I have erver used is the default FSX. I am running a good rig with a sound card and a 27" monitor but I am concerned about rates. I would hate to purchase just to see the FPS go down. Please help. Thanks, Ron

I've been reading up on Active Sky 2012 versus REX Essentials (and its various other versions). Basically, so far as I can ascertain, there really isn't much overall difference meaning that it's a significant UPGRADE going from REX to AS2012. REX *might* have the edge when it comes to graphics, AS2012 *might* have the edge when it comes to speed. However, the one thing that AS2012 seems to have that REX doesn't (and no mention of it coming in the future) is Wake Turbulance, Thermal generation, Updrafts and Downdrafts ... and yet it's the one thing that I have seen no mention of. Does anyone have any experience of these, and an assessment of their value or 'believa…

Hi, When I insalled the soft, a new gauge was installed on each plane. Is there any way to uninstall that gauge as I do not want to use AS 2012 anymore. Thank's for answers regards Yves

Hello, I just got an SSD and am planning on reinstalling fsx and all my addon on there. Will I be able to do this or will I need to buy another AS2012?

For some strange reason when the weather is loaded the GS and TAS are reading when my plane is parked and not moving. Earlier today I was getting a TAS and IAS of 17knots when my plane wasn't even moving. This screwed up my landing today as well, any help appreciated.