Integrating the Active Sky WXR engine with FSBuild – Active Sky Evolution

This is a note about integrating Active Sky Evolution with FSBuild (Flight Planning Add-on).

There is an issue with using ASE with FSBuild 2.3 . FSBuild does not pick up Winds from the latest METAR report synthesized by ASE. The post below somewhat helps resolve the issue.

The following post is also relevant.

 

The solution lies in editing the fsbuild2.cfg.
[FSBUILD]
WEATHERPROG=AS6
[MS-FLIGHTSIMULATOR]
AS6=C:-- USERSTOMAPPDATAROAMINGHIFIASAWEATHER {or whatever weather snapshot file you want to pull from ASv6, ASX, or ASA}

Setting WEATHERPROG=ACTIVESKY and ACTIVESKY={some path}, doesnt help FSBuild load winds aloft data from ASE. The solution is to use of AS6 and setting an AS6 path will work. You can, however, use that AS6 path to point to the location of your current_wx_snapshot.txt for ASA and ASX.

CPJ