Briefing - Remember that trip you planned in the Flight Plan tab?Well here you can receive a weather briefing based on your Flight Planas entered.

Active Sky X-plane
Active Sky Xp Free
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Active Sky X-plane 11

Active Sky XP (ASXP) brings the popular award-winning Active Sky weather engine to the XPlane platform for the first time. Using a hybrid weather depiction interface through XPlane 11’s weather API, a realistic, high-performance and high-fidelity weather experience is realized. Is Active Sky for XP a good investment? By jfri, November 2, 2020 in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum. Recommended Posts. Jfri 20 jfri 20 Member - 2,000.

Search - Are you looking for some thunderstorms to chase withhurricane hunter aircraft? Here you can search the database of weatherstations for the specific kind of flight conditions you wish toexperience.

Conclusion

I must say that my experience using Active Sky XP; discovering allthe features available to tailor the weather experience in thesimulator, was exciting! As I got acquainted with the program, itbecame apparent to me that twenty years of developing, refining,streamlining and adding features to the program, really shonethrough. The practical application of this program occurred to me aswell, in terms of enhancing the experience when utilizing thesimulator for real-world training.

Now the question of 'Should I buy this software enhancement forX-Plane, is it worth it?'

I would say it's worth it - it's a highly polished product,providing enhanced weather engine features above and beyond what isavailable in the default X-Plane weather controls.

If you are satisfied with the default weather engine, that's OK too(not everyone enjoys flying through inclement weather and would ratherstay in the sunshine with calm winds). You'll miss out though, on thedynamic weather experience provided by Active Sky XP.

Thanks for reading.

Sean McLeod
Purchase HiFi Technologies - Active Sky XP

Features Spotlight

Active Air Effects

Replaces internal X-Plane turbulence and air effects, providingenhanced turbulence, drafts, thermals, terrain-based wind effects,surface friction, gusts, variability, wake turbulence, microbursts andmore.

High-Performance Weather Depiction

Uses internal X-Plane 11.2x/11.3x cloud depiction for maximumperformance and smoothness, with multiple weather depiction modesincluding theme cell 'real weather' mode and global static mode - VRcompatible and optimized!

Active Sky Weather Engine

An evolved version of the Active Sky platform brings the corefeatures that made Active Sky the leading weather engine for otherplatforms: Advanced weather synthesis and interpolation,high-resolution global winds aloft, realistic air and atmosphereeffects, a comprehensive weather data network, integrated visualmapping and planning, and much, much more.

Voice Weather Delivery

Active Sky ATIS and Flightwatch are available at any time bylistening on 122.00, 122.02 or 122.03 for closest station,actual/current interpolated conditions and destination weatherreports, respectively.

Surface Crosswind Attenuation

Optional, for better ground handling in crosswind conditions whilepreserving headwind/tailwind component for performance accuracy.

Mobile Companion App

Use any device/browser to connect with Active Sky over your networkand view and control the weather.

Limitations

Not a complete visual cloud rendering replacement. We have put ourprevious X-Plane visual cloud rendering replacement efforts on hold(until next year) due to performance considerations and changing APIenvironment/tools that are not yet finalized.

We expect our visual cloud rendering replacement technology todebut in Q4 2019, subject to change based on many factors.

ASXP features high-performance cloud depiction with a focus onconditions accuracy, utilizing the X-Plane internal cloud renderingvia a hybrid API approach, with two different modes available.

ASXP also features an optional high-performance photo-realisticcloud texture replacement with a simple texture installationwizard.

Windows 64-Bit (v7 or later) Only

Mac, Linux and 32-bit X-Plane/Windows versions are not supported
In a networked environment, the ASXP application/client may run on Windows 32-bit (7 or later), but X-Plane must be 64-bit on Windows 64-bit (7 or later)
We hope to bring additional OS/platform support in the future
X-Plane version 11.26 or later (64-bit for Windows) is required

Requirements

X-Plane v11.26 or later, 64-bit Windows Version (Mac and 32-bit Windows versions are not compatible)
Windows 7 or later, 64-bit Version
Active and stable internet connection (broadband recommended)*
500 MB available hard drive space
1 GHz+ CPU
2 GB+ RAM
OpenGL 3.3 graphics device (nVidia GTX500 or or equivalent, or better)
1024x768 minimum available screen resolution to display all user interface features

*Certain countries may not have access to our USA server networkdue to governmental policy restrictions and/or internet network routeblocking. These countries include at this time, but are not limitedto: Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Sudan. If you can access thehifisimtech.com web site, you will also be able to access ourservers. Use of this product is not authorized in any country subjectto relevant embargo, sanction, restriction or prohibition applicablewithin the USA.

Sean McLeod
Purchase HiFi Technologies - Active Sky XP

SECTIONS

September 17, 2018

Active Sky X-plane

X-Plane

MSFS

It is one of 2018's most anticipated X-Plane addons and- it is coming soon! From successful roots on ESP platforms and with products such as ASP4 and ASCA, Hifi Sims have made the made the journey to X-Plane and are expected to release their first product for the sim, ASXP, in Q4 this year.

The Debut

X-Plane users have speculated for a considerable amount of time on popular P3D developers making the jump to the relatively new platform, one such developer being Hifi. The 'dream come true' moment occurred in early June 2017 when Hifi confirmed the existence of Active Sky XP in a presentation at FlightSimCon.

Little was heard from the developers for about a year until June 2018, when ASXP got a mention in the Hifi Summer Development Update.

'The main priority for us has been Active Sky for X-Plane, our first effort to provide an Active Sky experience on the X-Plane platform. ASXP’s initial design included several technologies and new concepts that we worked on for over a year before realizing that we needed to go back to the drawing board and re-work the design for an experience that provided high performance as well as great visuals while providing the kind of realism that our customers expect.

This redesign set us back quite a bit from our original estimate of completion. Currently we are looking at Q3 2018 Beta and Q4 2018 Release. Of course, these are only estimates and subject to change.'

Developer Damian Clark talked of the first screenshots of ASXP were to follow shortly after the announcement, however those are yet to be seen.

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The Rumours

Active Sky Xp Free

The line then ran quiet for the remainder of Q2 and the majority of this quarter until rumours surfaced that ASXP had entered beta stage at the start of September. The rumours are of course unconfirmed, however a photo emerged of a Hifi email to beta testers regarding ASXP and more affirmation that Active Sky '100% coming to X-Plane'.

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ASXP appears in Navigraph AIRAC 1810

Active Sky Xp Vs Fs Global Real Weather

In recent days, more news has come to light regarding Active Sky XP in the form