Activesky P3d
Trinidad Baltzell
hey guys I need some help with connecting activesky with prepar3dv5 I just bought it today and I did a fresh reinstall of both prepar3dv5 and activesky. I downloaded the connector and I have active sky enabled in add-on in prepar3dv5. but the activesky does not connect with prepar3d even when I launch can anyone help with this?
When I first ran those .msi, it prompted me to run as administrater but when I did them again just to check again, it did not prompt me to run as administrators and there is no option to. the activesky version is 8080.
Hello for the past few days Activesky has been unable To download the VATSIM metars when you select 'Use vatsim weather' in the activesky settings. I've opened a support ticket at Hifi and they got back to me to say
It cannot access the VATSIM METAR for NZQN, but uses grid data for some of the values and the METAR data from the nearest available station with current weather from the public METAR network, that would be NZCH. The current METAR from NZCH can be accessed by ASXP, because it is publicly available: NZCH 141530Z AUTO 30001KT 0200 R02/0650D R20/P2000N FZFG VV002 M03/M03 Q1026 TEMPO 2000 BR
Hi Andreas to make sure you tested it correctly, to use the vatsim metar in activesky you need tick 'use vatsim weather' in settings then load a flightplan into activesky then it downloads the vatsim metars for your dep, arr and alternate.
Hi Brian, have you heard back from them? I am currently flying online in New Zealand with VATSIM weather activated and it can only use the public METARs from NZCH, NZWN and NZAA. All others are not available and the interpolation of weather is pretty inaccurate.
'' We were able to identify the issue. Apparently the VATSIM URL we were using to obtain the active METAR data URL ( ) is no longer returning result data for our programmatic "client", possibly due to an unexpected redirect, change at their web server end or to something with .NET/windows updates. It works fine with a normal web browser but not our client. This is the first we've heard of an issue here but it seems to affect all Active Sky products. It's likely to have just started recently.
We have resolved in our current generation products ASP3D and ASXP (will be posted in next public builds soon) by simply using a non-https URL ( ). We are not sure on the timeline for previous generation products such as AS16 but given our current workload and priorities it may take some time. I regret that we are unable to provide a quicker fix for you. ''
Yes, they have sent me a test version for X-Plane, but in this one they still have no access to VATSIM's METAR feed. So, no access to the METARs for Queenstown NZQN and other places that are only available at VATSIM.
Yes, 7542 is the one that HiFi Support had sent me a link for, too. But even after loading a flightplan from NZQN to NZNS, it kept interpolating data, I never got the VATSIM METAR to show as in your screenshot. Strange!
Fixed a VATSIM METAR fetching issue where VATSIM data was not downloaded even when option enabled and flight plan loaded (NOTE: METARs that are exclusive to use for VATSIM ONLY will not be downloaded due to data licensing concerns - These METARs would contain RMK VATSIM USE ONLY when looked up via VATSIM)
How did you get on please? I can see that this is still an issue in ASXP - it's not downloading the METARs that have 'VATSIM USE ONLY' as a remark. I've emailed (and copied you into) the General Manager for Aviation Services at New Zealand's MetService organisation. Hopefully he can provide some clarity on the licence for the METARs they provide to VATSIM. It would seem counter-intuitive for the licence to prevent tools like Active Sky from using them.
Im using ASV5 since a few weeks and im pretty satisfied with it.
Also the performance is very good.
Except you fly into a very cloudy area.
Then my frames fall down to 5-8fps.
And flying is not fun anymore especially when youre on an approach.
My cloud resolution is 256x256.
Now i wanna know from the ASV users if theres a way to get better performance or if it is possible to comprimise the clouds?
And how is the resolution 64x64?
Will the performance get better a lot?
And will the clouds be still nice to watch?
I use 256x256, cant go 512......it all depends on your hardware capability.
Mine is 3.0 P3 1.5 GB ram Radion 9800 with bunch of addons. so hacve to sacrafice some scenery settings. without the clouds I could set all at max, now I can only set scenery at ultra high with autogen to dense(max is extremely dense).
I think upgrading to fs9.1 can improve your performance dramatically, coz they fixed the memory leak problem.
64x64 is lousy, dont go there......
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