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Just a quick public 'thank you' to the HiFi support chaps. I had a problem with ASE not starting up so I submitted a ticket last night and this morning the successful answer was forthcoming.So thank you very much.

I have a repeating problem with the wind during descent. It is now autumn in Europe and there are strong winds. I flew ENVA-ENGM, ESMS-ESSA and EKCH-EDDH. Upper winds about 60-100kts and still about 30kts or more @FL100.About 40-50NM to destination passing ~FL200-FL150 the winds are constant about 40kts there was always a sudden wind shift to less than 10kts. Reloading the weather took it back to normal strong winds.DWC is on and I have the latest release for my FSX.

Hello, I bought Active Sky Evolution today, but it appears that the license key is invalid (the message during start up is "Invalid key, your license key is invalid"). Does anyone have this problem? How can I solve it? Regards Joao Guimaraes

ASE worked perfectly well for months and months up until yesterday when after starting the programit just crashed with the subsequent Win7 AppCrash warning. I have since tried to repair it (failed),uninstall and reinstall (failed). Not sure what else I can do, the PC hasn't had anything added hardwareor software wise. My OS is Win7 HP 64bit. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks

Hello Is it possible to still use the weather gauge in FSX if ASE is located on a networked PC via fswide, thanks

I run ASE from a networked machine. I built and installed a new FSX machine. Now when I start ASE on the remote machine, ASE asks for the path to FSX. I can navigate to the FSX folder on the other machine but only folders are displayed, not the individual files including FSX. How do I get these individula files to appear? (I have checked "show hidden files" in the folder options. If I use exployer on the ASE machine, I can navigate to FSX but not within the window suppliued by ASE. Is there an ASE ini file where I could add the path to FSX?

Hello everyone, We have an opening for a new HiFi staff position! This person will be assisting with customer service, technical support and also in management of our beta processes. The ideal candidate will have excellent written communication skills, be fluent in the English language, have experience with customer service and have in-depth technical knowledge of our products as well as Microsoft Flight Simulator. This is a contracted (independent contractor) arrangement with opportunity for profit sharing and further growth and expansion within our company. If you like to help others, want to be involved with the development of weather simulation technology for des…

Hello, I wanna know how to apply ASE weather setting to FSX immediatly.Is there any button like "Apply to FSX"? While testing some flights with ASE weather ans clear weather, I realized I can "clear" skies by selecting clear skies in FSX butcouldn't set ASE weather again. After clicking few buttons - REFESH, Apply weather on Wx config tab, ASE crashed. No way to applying ASE weather without restarting ASE?

Hi guys, I'm new to ASE. From reading other posts I now have a little dilemma...: "Should i enabled the wind smoothing option in fuispc?"

Hello I fly the PMDG 737ngx with ASE and Radar Contact 4 within australia with Orbx airports and FTX full terrain for Australia, what are the most realistic settings to use to ensure I am getting real world weather through out australia, should I be using DWC, I also have a registered copy of FSUIPC that I use with FSX. Does anybody have a guide that will give the most realistic settings, thanks in advance Wayne

Did a flight in LAX today and ASE was bang on, it was perfect, and the depiction of OVC just seemed to be much better, first time I really had to use the autoland on my lds.

Hi,I posted this in the FSX section, but no solution found, so someone advised me to post here. I try to sum it up here.My rig and add-ons : I use FSX, Active Sky X, REX 2.0 textures, mainly PMDG add-ons, all with latest updates, my graphic card is a ATI HD5870 with last drivers, CPU I7E860 not o/c, mb P7P55D, 8 gigs RAM, Win 7 64 bits..The facts:Since I switched to FSX, some months ago, I've got a frustrating problem for which I need your help for a solution, even if I know FSX and weather processing might be crap. I spent hours looking for a solution, without success.The problem: randomly, when on final, with bad METARs (mainly visibility under 10km) whatever on which …

Trying to reinstall ASA so I can upgrade to ASE. I loaded ASX and tried to upgrade to ASA. ASA installer says ASX isn't installed so it won't install. so I can't move to ASE. Help anyone???

Hi guys! I purchase active sky evolution yesterday, do I need the sp3 or is it included in the installer? Thanks.

OK, this is the next question I have, and this one has me very puzzled. Instead of using live downloaded weather, I have been attempting to use the WX Config option. I will copy a valid METAR from a weather site and paste it into ASE (please see pic below). I then select the Application Range to Global as I'm flying in a fairly small area and the station for the METAR is about 70 nm away from where I am. I then hit the "Apply Weather" button, and you get the window you see below. All looks ok. However, FSX does not seem to actually receive this weather. You will note the winds at 17007 in the METAR, but 320 at 6 kts (seems to be the standard that FSX produces no matter w…

Hi Guys For no reason at all I can see, ASE just stopped working across my network. When I try the suggested 'test' (from the ASE manual) of running the the AITraffic.exe from the SDK in the client, the monitor shows nothing. I don't recall making any changes that may affect SimConnect. I've tried using IP addresses and names, but neither makes a change. Any ideas gratefully received. Here are my simconnect entries... Server: simconnect.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0"><Descr>SimConnect</Descr><Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename><Disabled>False</Disabled>&lt…

I've seen many posts about VATSIM temperatures being high during cruise but I can't figure mine out. I have ASE and use that for my weather. CAVOK on FSInn is turned off. None-the-less, as soon as I let ASE update my weather, in cruise, the temperature shoots up to around 45 C at FL350 causing a number of problems. Any ideas? Again, I have FSInn CAVOK turned off, and I've tried every ASE depiction mode.

Hey! I have been using VATSIM online weather for 3.5 years. I heard that AS simulates weather much better. What is the different beetween Active Sky 6.5 and AS Evolution? AS 6.5 is cheaper by 15 USD, so I think I will go for it.

Hello everyone! We've recently upgraded our website including a brand new back-end system and during the "upgrade" we noticed that our testimonials on file were fairly out-dated. While we have received many "kudos" and private "thank you" testimonials over the years including recently, we don't like to use them without specific permission and understanding that such text would be used in our marketing efforts. In that regard we're wondering if anyone would like to share their experiences with our products by providing testimonials, with the understanding that we would place these on our "new" website and marketing materials? If you'd like to provide such a testimonial …

Hi,OK, so I'm enroute right now over El Salvador when my altimeter starting winding down like mad. Looks like station MSSS is causing the problem:MSSS 1950 19005KT 9999 F027 33/21 Q10154 A2998 HZObivously a mistake in the reported QNH. Is there any way in a future version that erroneous values such as this can be ignored so they don't cause havoc. Things seem to be setting down now, but I've been attitude flying the last 100 miles with various swings of the the altimeter, etc.Edit BTW this is B647 of ASE. Now another one is causing problems MHAM with an interpolated QNH of 1181 mb!!!

Good Day All, and in particular Mr. Skorna, I've been using ASE for quite a while now (and ASA before that), and find I'm a tad confused about a few things, so I'm wondering if I could please get a little help in interpreting some data. I'm fully familiar with METAR's and whatnot, this is more to do with what actual weather I really am getting at my location. So, I have a few screen shots to help with my question here. First up, I'm flying in an area that doesn't have a reporting station (mostly in the bush - when are you ASE folks going to institute the most common "weather" phenomena there is in the Canadian bush - "warm and muggy with severe mosquitoes ? ), so a lot of…

I fully support your measures Damien Clark and hope you can identify and prosecute pirates of ASE. I never have figured out how software piracy can be so "successful" with so many verification procedures when using it. It seems they could better use their time by just purchasing the product.Best wishes for success.Neal howard

Hello everyone, We'd like to thank Jim Skorna for his service over the years.... he has been a great help and we sincerely appreciate his hard work and long standing positive relationship with HiFi and the flight simulation community. Unfortunately he will no longer be serving as our Support Manager. Please join me in thanking him for his service and congratulating him for his new "real life" role where his time and resources are very much needed. Thank you Jim, and good luck with everything! We hope to see you around the forums and in the simulated skies!

I say catch these pirates and prosecute them, its a great product and worth supporting the developer and the support that comes with the registered copy, I am all for the developer taking legal action on piracy Wayne

Hi Damian, Running captioned version (build 533) years now. Never usually have issues but for the second time in the last week I'm now seeing this error despite having an active functioning internet connection. Last time I just quit and eventually ASv connected ok when I tried again a couple hours later. The old fs machine is running WinXP SP3, antivirus disabled makes no difference, and no firewall other than Windows, turned that off too. Any server issues lately on your end or possibly something going on with mine? As I type this ASv not connecting. ThanksMark Reynolds