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  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION - ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ

    Due to an increase in the number of new members who are trying to systematically download our entire Resource Library (one new member yesterday tried to download 3,000+ files AT ONCE!) we are being forced to implement some changes regarding who can download what, how many files at a time and at what speed. As the forums and Resource Library share the same bandwidth when the Library gets overloaded with demand like that the forums fall over, as we have all seen recently. It's sad that greed has forced our hand in this way but we must do something for the benefit of all our legitimate members (many of whom paid money for the upkeep of the site) and to prevent the files stored here being used for nefarious purposes. Many of our uploads have specific conditions tied to them that forbid uploading to any other site or deny uploading to any site that has a 'paywall' (i.e. a pay to download policy). Due to the number of mass download attempts recently we can only assume that somebody, somewhere, is attempting to stock up a new file library with our files and we owe it to our up-loaders to protect their files and intellectual property especially as many (like my own LDR Development projects) are made available at SOH only and are specified as such in the 'read me' files.

    The forums and Resource Library will be taken offline as of 13:00 EDT with the forums coming back online shortly after without the resources library while we work on setting up permissions on the new Library module.

    We hope our members understand why we need to do this and will bear with us while we implement the changes.

    Thanks in anticipation, SOH ADMINISTRATION

    The download limits are a work in progress. Please hold on until we work out the details of how it will work.

Active Sky for MSFS

YoYo

YoYo

SOH-CM-2023
Awsome news, we can say „finally” https://hifisimtech.com/active-sky-fs-announced/ !
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Btw. However, I have some concerns because as far as I know, Asobo still doesnt give 100% of access for his weather API for third-party developers (so here is a reason why HiFi didnt do ASFS earlier).

Btw2. Marked as not planned - https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...tem-write-access-to-3rd-party-devs/266706/396 (I voted in this topic some months ago) so perhaps it will be only partially „old, which we know” Active Sky. :(
 
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I'm happy with the sim's own weather at this point, and with the new 2024 offering so close, I'm hesitant to invest in something like this.
 
I concur with Tom. I'm sure hoping that the addon aircraft that I buy now will still work with 2024!

Priller
 
I don't see how something like REX or AS have a place anymore? The sim itself has the weather engine which uses the core data...so I don't get what exactly this is over an above, and why it's not just gimmicky at this point....? This is an honest question. I understand why in the previous sims. THe default weather was terrible. And I owned both REX and AS at the time.
 
Yep, I had AS for P3D because it was dramatically better than the native weather.

The only feature I see on the list that really adds something over the MSFS weather engine is historical weather. That would be cool.

With 2024 about six months away, though, and Asobo having said they don't have an open weather API, I'll take a wait-and-see approach here and see if there are reports of awesomeness from early adopters. I stupidly bought REX Weather Force for MSFS when it first shipped and I haven't touched it in years.
 
Mach3DS said:
I don't see how something like REX or AS have a place anymore? The sim itself has the weather engine which uses the core data...so I don't get what exactly this is over an above, and why it's not just gimmicky at this point....? This is an honest question. I understand why in the previous sims. THe default weather was terrible. And I owned both REX and AS at the time.
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The default weather looks very good indeed.
But "looking very good" is not always the same as "being accurate". The weather we get in the sim right now not only misses quite a few cloud types, but it's also not matching real world conditions sometimes (and let's not forget the snow coverage which is ridiculous in some places).

And finally, the current weather engine does not support historical weather. So, for example, if I trigger a flight right now, which is morning for me, and choose the make a flight with real weather in the Death Valley in North America, I will get quite "cool" (cold) night temperatures because it's night-time over there right now, instead of the very hot temps that I should get in that place during day time. Historical weather would be able to fetch the weather from yesterday morning instead, to get some realistic weather conditions.
 
I agree with Daube, there is plenty of room for improvement in the default weather accuracy-wise. For one thing, it seems determined to give me a 20-knot crosswind no matter where and when I fly. Plenty of times I have looked outside IRL, seen that it is a lovely day for flying with hardly any wind, then booted up MSFS at my local airport only to face a 20-knot wind that I know is not really there. As a mainly GA and vintage flyer, that really affects my enjoyment. When I use AS in P3D it just about nails the winds as well as other conditions most of the time. And I won't be buying FS2024 for at least several months after release, so there is still time to enjoy a FS2020 product if the price is not too bad.

August
 
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