- Active sky next issues with fsx upgrade#
- Active sky next issues with fsx Pc#
- Active sky next issues with fsx zip#
What you will notice about the installation notes is that there is this statement right at the top of the page: Whatever else you do, it is always advisable to read any text file that accompanies a download, just in case the authors have any last minute information or advice on installing the software. In the newly unzipped folder you will see a “license.rtf” document, a setup.exe and a text file “HOW_TO_INSTALL.txt”. This needs to be extracted to a safe place – and if you are careful, you can save it to a CD or DVD as well.
Active sky next issues with fsx zip#
What you get, when you have completed the download, is a zip file. Download, unzip, install… simple enough procedure and no difficulties need to be expected, although as usual, I must remind the reader to take a look at the downloaded data before doing anything else. The price depends on which version you already own.īut whether you buy this add-on from HiFi Sim’s own shop, or here on simMarket or anywhere else, you end up with a little over 80 MB of zipped data, which unpacks to an only slightly larger amount in its own folder on your hard drive.
Active sky next issues with fsx upgrade#
The first caveat that needs to be stated is that Active Sky Advanced is also available as an upgrade to owners of the Active Sky X or Active Sky 6.5 versions, so before you buy, make sure you log on to the same shop as where you bought your original copies. True, but the FSX weather engine, whilst very good, is not as flexible as the ASA one. “So what” I hear the jaded calls from FSX users, “FSX can do that too, and tailor the weather conditions”. First and foremost, you can use it to select the current weather from anywhere in the world and apply it to FSX in real-time. This reads like some sort of fantasy perhaps? Well if it helps, the idea behind Active Sky Advanced (ASA) is pretty fantastic. Well how about thirteen layers of cloud between the ground and FL 320? No problem, what do you want, Ice particles in the precipitation? Hail?
I wonder what the weather was on July 7th, 2007? ASA has thrown up a rainy day in Livingstone – in Zambia I presume? Well as it happens, it is rainy season on the Dark Continent. Let’s try for something really horrible… Rub the magic lantern… “O djinn of the lamp, show me some terrible claggy weather” Now the beauty of ASA advanced over it’s predecessors is that you can actually go out and find that ghastly weather – to go there if you are of a masochistic persuasion or to avoid like the plague, if you are sensible. You can pick a spot on the globe at random and most of the time you’ll have light wind, light cloud… My random shot is no different. But then again, the first thing to remember about the weather is that most of the time it is just simply average. On the short hop between Naha (ROAH) and Futenma (ROTM) you can see that the weather isn’t startling. “We’ll take it, don’t bother to wrap it, we’ll fly it as it is.” Fire up FSX and take a pair of title pictures for this review. Hmm, that’s interesting – I picked a small western Pacific island south of Japan – Okinawa Jima.
Let me spin my Google Earth globe and pick a random spot. What is the weather like right now, right this instant – as I write these words – in somewhere like Timbuktu? No, let’s forget Timbuktu, that’s in the middle of the desert and at this time of day I will hazard a guess at eight eighths sunshine. Various screenshots – for those with time SECOND LOOK – INTERACTION WITH FS AND FEATURES
Active sky next issues with fsx Pc#
Over the past few weeks I have been flying my PC with this latest edition of what has probably been one of the single most influential programs in flight simulation over the past few years. A century into flight and now we can even invent the weather we want with programs like HiFi Sim’s Active Sky Advanced, not to mention set up real world weather conditions anywhere in the world as it is right now. A few years later, Bleriot looked over the English Channel and could see the White Cliffs of Dover. Wilbur and Orville had an easy job of weather forecasting – a glimpse over the field and they could see all they needed to know.
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