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The audio is of high quality but doesn’t have a radio effect like listening to ATIS on VATSIM. These are available by tuning your radio to a set frequency. Once your flight plan is set, you can use the briefing tab to get departure and arrival weather in printable coded METAR or decoded audio formats. Setting your flight plan in ASXP also gives you a more realistic experience in terms of weather overall. This is where you can either dispatch your flight using Navigraph data, or you can import a flight plan from an external file. The best way to use the map is by inputting your chosen flight plan via the Flight Plan tab. The weather systems are layered onto a global map but they then cover any stations and country outlines below making it quite hard to navigate your way around. The map view itself, regardless of which mode you are using, is a little hard to interpret. This does take some time but is fully customisable through changing the METAR descriptions, and you can make things as challenging as you want. You need to select the area you wish to create weather for and then add in the weather systems. Initially you must do so via the map tab. Creating your own weather is a little more complex. This is great if you want to try your hand at storm chasing, providing you have hurricanes enabled.
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With historic weather, you can download specific weather conditions from any day in the past two years. There are two more types of weather modes: historic and custom. This is constantly updated providing you have ASXP and X-Plane running together, though the ASConnect plugin will do this for you. For any weather from ASXP, you simply point X-Plane in the direction of the saved METAR file. This is then interpreted and packaged into a file that X-Plane can read and insert into the simulator. This is a snapshot of current global real-world weather downloaded in the form of a METAR file. Many users will only really use ASXP for live real-world weather. There is a workaround and that is to dock the tabs you use most these then pop out of ASXP into their own windows which you can maximise. I imagine the idea behind this is to use a secondary screen for your weather station.
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This tends to get frustrating if you only have one PC monitor when flying or have to switch between two windows.
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Down the left-hand side, you are presented with other options and settings that could be condensed into one these are functions like using the ASXP textures, filing bug reports and so on.Īnother issue I have with the UI is that in full screen mode, the UI fills the screen completely so you lose the taskbar. You get a tab bar with five tabs along the top – these allow you to change between weather modes (which I’ll get to later), view the weather map, view the weather conditions at a chosen airport or weather station, set a flight plan, read/listen to the weather briefing, and a weather search function. I found the Active Sky user interface a little congested and not very intuitive. By no means are these volumetric clouds, they are just texture replacements, so you still get the rotating cloud effect, but this does make a big difference to the clouds and realism overall. This isn’t too dissimilar to using the default X-Plane clouds and weather system. I normally get about 40 FPS in the air using the FlightFactor A320 rendering overcast skies with ASXP.
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Not only do they look great, they are easy on your frame rate too.
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You set this up on activation, where you’re also prompted with the question ‘would you like to install the ActiveSky weather textures?’ This alone is worth the cash – the upgraded textures for clouds in X-Plane really make an immediate difference. Once all that is done, all you need to do is login to ASXP with your email and password. Initial installation was quick and easy, the system installs all the necessary files into your X-Plane root folder, including ASConnect – the plugin that allows the system to communicate with your sim. If you were sat on the fence as to whether you should take the plunge, then I’ll hopefully help you make that decision.
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I’ve had ASXP for a while now and I would say I have just about mastered the complexity of the system.
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The add-on is a welcome addition to the default simulator weather and injects a more realistic and exciting feel to flying around the globe. In December of 2018 Active Sky for X-Plane (known as ASXP) was born. HiFi Simulations has been working on bringing their renowned weather engine to X-Plane for about three years. There is no question about the impact of ActiveSky for P3D and how it really brings the weather to life.