After some iterations over the last years, Active Sky Next became a beast in the world of flight simulation in both the FSX and P3D communities. You see, Active Sky Next (or ASN) is not just a little program that downloads real weather data and injects it into your sim (FSX or P3D). ASN offers you so much more that, to be honest, the sheer sight of the interface was overwhelming – in a good way. That’s a lot! And, honestly, I have spent hours trying it so that I could write an educated review and I haven’t even experienced half of it! FeaturesĪccording to the official description, ASN offers “ realistic radar simulation, cloud position awareness and synchronized ambient effects, brand new air effects, brand new thunderstorm depictions, microbursts, thick overcast, smooth cloud transitions, variable cloud areas, voice weather briefings and forecast data integration ”. You can download weather settings, create your own, save them, load them, configure pretty much everything in the software such as cloud layers, visibility, audio, warnings and a plethora of other things. One of the handiest features could be the ability to tune in to an “ASN ATIS”. Even if there’s no ATIS service nearby, you can enter some specific frequencies to listen to ASN’s own ATIS. Those can be found in the manual and the one for the station closer to you is 122.00. #ACTIVE SKY NEXT INSTALLING TO WRONG FOLDER MANUAL# If you have a flight plan filed, you can also listen to the destination station, for example. Haven’t you subscribed to our YouTube channel yet? VisualsĪctive Sky Next will almost seems to upgrade your visuals, with better clouds and effects (such as thunders), despite not actually changing the gextures. #ACTIVE SKY NEXT INSTALLING TO WRONG FOLDER UPGRADE# Thunderstorms look much more realistic now – and scarier too. One thing I have noticed, though is that haze is now present, providing a much more realistic atmosphere and adding some “thickness” to the air around us.ĪSN brings the whole atmosphere to live and kinda glues everything together. Both the vertical and horizontal transitions are more seamless and the sky looks much more compact. It’s like ASN is providing some sense to something that I always found to be a bit chaotic and meaningless. Run the installer and off you go, just like most of the add-ons and other pieces of software out there these days. #ACTIVE SKY NEXT INSTALLING TO WRONG FOLDER SOFTWARE# My first test was pretty simple: I started ASN, open my default flight and off I went. I immediately noticed it since it added some clouds and I flew around a bit.ĪSN did the rest: it downloaded the weather for the area I was at and injected it into FSX. #ACTIVE SKY NEXT INSTALLING TO WRONG FOLDER SOFTWARE#.#ACTIVE SKY NEXT INSTALLING TO WRONG FOLDER UPGRADE#.#ACTIVE SKY NEXT INSTALLING TO WRONG FOLDER MANUAL#.

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