#Active sky next or as16 full#
So while reducing cloud density a notch triggers an AS16 warning about not getting the full effects, I think it actually looks better as I no longer have to deal with the overcast wall of nothing. I’ve recently turned clouds in P3D down from max to high to counter the crippling effect of SGSS that I need to make P3D look good. I found myself dealing with this wall of nothing very very frequently and it appeared to run counter to the METARs in question. But personally, to my mind and based upon my experience, it’s overdone. There’s a much more prevalent overcast effect - basically where you cannot see anything. I guess the test is that apart from the occasional popcorn and some cloud repetition, which was worse at launch I think, there’s nothing there that I look at and think “eh?” They say it’s better, and after flying it a while I kinda think it’s better. Maybe it looks better, but I’m wary of wishful thinking applying here. Is the weather depiction better than ASN? It’s really hard to say without doing a side by side comparison.
#Active sky next or as16 upgrade#
To be honest I’m not completely and utterly sold on the upgrade and the revised per-platform pricing, though I can appreciate why they’ve done it. I upgraded from ASN to AS16 & ASCA not long after it was launched, coming from an ASN / Texture Direct 4 with Soft Clouds setup. Turb scale=35, "Realistic thunderstorm drafts"=on (or off if you don't know how the radar works)An another topic - anyone using Active Sky 2016 and is it worth the upgrade? So in conclusion these are my recommended Active Sky settings: I personally fly with AS16 with everything set to default (Turb scale 70, Cloud/Wind=100) mainly for testing and never had any issue with AP disconnect events. All the other (Cloud turbulence, Wind turbulence etc) are related to how often you get turbulence in the sim and these should be on user to decide and should not be part of an aircraft specific recommendation "set". This is recommended to go back to 30-35 as it's the only one having any effect on the aircraft. The ONLY relevant option that you may want to (optionally) lower is the "Turbulence scale" option. Now, another confusion has to do with the recommended turbulence settings in AS16 and this clearly has to do with the misinterpretation of what each setting does. Otherwise, no reason to use Active sky at all.
If you get a PWS warning during approach, you actually have to go around. This however will make the radar just render some nice eye candy colorful images Īs for the Microburst/Windshear, I'm sorry you can't disable it. If for whatever reason you want to fly into a CB and continue your path/approach, you can uncheck the "Realistic thunderstorm up/downdraft" option in AS16 settings. With AS16 we apply up to a maximum of 2-3000 ft/min intentionally trying to destabilize the aircraft and try to make it lose control. In reality flying close to a CB (less than 20 miles margin) is definitely avoided, because updraft/downdraft events up to 10000 feet/min may be encountered. The PF in this case went directly into the "reds". The main (but not the only) reason we did this was to troubleshoot any AP disconnect events (this way isolating them to a fault in the aircraft itself back then).Īn example of atmosphere instability is evident in the video linked previously. Based on all that during A320x beta testing we decided to recommend lowering the up/downdraft settings in ASN (btw with AS16 this is not needed, as we automatically adjust it based on the aircraft type now). You can see the applied air vertical speed in AS16 debug window (in a second monitor or if you run in a network). Now, the first 2 can be reduced by reducing the related options, but not the 3rd and 4th one. Atmosphere instability due to convective activity (including flying close/into CBs) Thermal generation (based on temperature, time of day, season and of course surface type)
Terrain/winds (in contrast to what is assumed in a previous post) Updraft/downdraft implementation in Active sky is based on the following triggering conditions: