HiFi Technologies - Active Sky XP12

The next installment in the Active Sky series, Active Sky XP12 brings extensive integration with the new X-Plane 12 platform and its re-designed weather system.

Not a “replacement” to the internal weather system of XP12, ASXP12 is a Comprehensive Enhancement, enabled by tight integration, that adds an improved weather experience, from planning, weather data access and interaction, weather control, automatic weather mode control, air effects, to advanced depiction, and much, much more.

Over 20 years in the making, Active Sky utilizes several weather data sources including surface and model data, and synthesizes and curates it into the most accurate and realistic weather scene possible for your simulated flights.

As always, Active Sky provides Live, historical, and customized weather options, with historical playback capability, provide the weather exactly as you want it, when you want it.

FEATURES

• Evolving Weather Depiction utilizing XP12’s new weather SDK/API, which is undergoing active improvement – ASXP12 brings new control capabilities and accuracy, enhanced smoothing, and couples with the new 3D procedural clouds and new lighting system of XP12 for a much improved visual experience
• New Improvements in recent ASXP12 updates include: Ground snow control, providing more accurate ground snow coverage according to actual ground snow depth data, new Passive weather control mode, turbulence tuning and much more. See the changelog below for more information.
• Enhanced Air Effects works with and enhances internal X-Plane 12 effects, providing new turbulence, drafts, thermals, terrain-based wind effects, variability, microbursts and more
• Optional Live Hybrid Depiction Control allows a combination of ASXP12 fully-controlled weather depiction and effects, and X-Plane 12 live weather depiction + ASXP12 effects – XP12 live wx depiction is enabled in the enroute phases, and ASXP12 wx depiction is enabled in the departure/destination phases
• Active Sky Weather Engine brings the core features that made Active Sky the leading weather add-on for FS9, FSX, P3D, and XP platforms, including Advanced weather synthesis and interpolation, high-resolution global model data integrated with surface observation and forecast data, realistic air and atmosphere effects, integrated visual mapping and planning, and much, much more
• Historical Weather is included, in hourly intervals, with automatic playback to keep you in sync, changing weather dynamically as it happened in real life
• Custom Weather allows visual application and modification of all weather parameters using the ASXP12 interface
• Navigraph and SimBrief Integration allows optional up to date Navigation and Airport databases as well as SimBrief Flight Plan load/import
• Voice Weather Delivery Active Sky ATIS and Flightwatch are available at any time by listening on 122.00, 122.02 or 122.03 for closest station, actual/current interpolated conditions and destination weather reports, respectively
• Comprehensive API allows 3rd parties to integrate in many ways, getting or setting nearly every parameter of ASXP12 weather and depiction
• Mobile Companion App Use any device/browser to connect with Active Sky over your network and view and control the weather

• X-Plane 12.04 or later
• OS: Windows 64-bit (v7 or later) only | Mac, Linux & 32-bit X-Plane/Windows versions are not supported
• 1 GHz+ CPU
• 4 GB+ RAM
• Video card: Minimum as required for XP11 or XP12 | DX12/Vulkan Compatible card with 2 GB+ VRAM is recommended
• 500 MB available hard drive space
• 1024×768 minimum available screen resolution to display all user interface features
• Active and stable internet connection (broadband recommended)*

*Active Sky XP 12 is an online product that will require the creation of a new user account. You must be logged in to use the software. One login per user account is permitted. You can install the software on multiple machines and/or move the software to other machines, but may be logged in only once at a time.

Update 013024 (B8795):

• Applied alternate tropopause temperature handling to prevent out of range values causing crashing/issues with some aircraft including HotStart Challenger 650
• Fixed bug in previous turbulence changes causing excessive turbulence (translational forces) in some cases

Update 011024 (B8775):

• Fixed issue with temperatures forcing to 0C in some cases, causing invalid temperature simulation as well as potential flight stability issues