Active Sky Next...foggy landings everywhere you go?

[blockhead]

Having using the ASN Weather system for a little while now, it seems to be a simulation of good to bad weather -but hellbent (even in live weather mode) to have a terrible obnoxious thing about FOG on approaches to a runway! I never knew the planet had so much foggy weather? Is it the normal thing to have despite it is clear but cloudy at the departure airport and then you have sudden fog on your arrival? Something doesn't add up about this program, unless the makers are unable to allow you to have a clear approach! The localizer is rubbish, despite trying to program it for final approach. The daft aircraft still doesn't know where the flipping runway is! In reality the computers on board a real aircraft will know exactly where the glideslope is other than FSX does NOT have this built into the simulated aircraft whatsoever! It makes NO DIFFERENCE if you dial in the radio frequency on the NAV 1 and coordinate the CRS heading code into the aircraft so it can be picked up. This can either be on a default plane or an add on. Even if you program the approach using the GPS Garmin map inside the plane, it still doesn't line up for the approaching runway properly. I think the developers of the aircraft any type or manufacturer and the developers of ASN are taking the Mickey out of us Flight simmers. Good job it is a computer GAME, as in my eyes this is NO simulator to fly aircraft! If these idiots designed inaccurate autopilots for real aircraft, like they seem to do for Flight Simulator, then there would be a hell of a lot of plane crashes in the news! It's a joke game, taking the Mickey out of virtual pilots!

[ntai]

I don't have ASN, but my GUESS is that you have something checked in your settings to simulate fog on landing. This is definitely not a normal thing to always have fog. I use REX Essentials and poor visibility on landing is an occasional thing, you could contact the support team for ASN if you can't get to the bottom of it.

I confess to be a little bit bemused by the rest of your post regarding the localizer. I understand that these things can be frustrating, but i can confirm that there is nothing wrong with the ILS in FSX (maybe a few airports a little bit off) and my add on planes are capable of perfect landings using auto land in poor visibility.

" In reality the computers on board a real aircraft will know exactly where the glideslope is other than FSX does NOT have this built into the simulated aircraft whatsoever!"

Indeed it does. I don't think that default aircraft have auto land capabilities, but they should have no problem with an ILS approach and landing. You could try it without ASN and see what happens.

Good Luck.

[wout123]

i use ase, and on the main screen therte are soem settings reagrding fog

i def do not have all the time foggy landings.

besides that you can set a certain minum visibility.

seems to me you havnet realy read the manual?

shoudnt be too difficult to get it straight.

[jorgen.s.andersen]

You have, of course, gone here:

 

http://support.hifitechinc.com/

 

Jorgen

[blockhead]

Thank you to all your posts. I tried to land without using the ASN and set up my landing approach using autopilot. It all went well, so it appears to be pilot error! With regards to the fog, I have to keep in mind that it happened to be foggy where I was heading to and not the result of the ASN add on, after trying it out again. I remembered that I did fail to activate the localizer with the NAV/GPS unit on board. I was supposed to switch to NAV mode and that is what had failed. Thanks again!:o