Yeah, everything else default. I made a quick (and poor) video of the difference between Active Sky full and passive mode. Passive mode uses the default FS2024 visuals with AS winds and turbulence. Theoretically.
We can see that:
- In this example, the turbulence model seemed pretty much the same between AS and FS 2024.
- AS said vis was 10+ miles with light showers. That is certainly not what was displayed. FS 2024 was much closer to the description shown in AS.
Since my earlier flight in this region today, the clouds have gone up a couple of thousand feet at least and a lot more holes. Given the precipitation I saw in my earlier flight, that seems very reasonable.
This is just one example so we shouldn’t assume it is representative. One issue in Australia is that we have few METAR stations so apps like AS have to do some severe interpolation. Europe and US don’t have that issue.
One thing we lose with AS though is that in FS weather, I can see different weather in the distance. EG: It might be sunny here and rain just over there. We lose most of that in AS and Weather Force. And it is a cool feature.
In Australia at least, I think FS does a pretty good job in general. It’s just those limited up/down draught and turbulence affects that make me look elsewhere.
