Active Sky 6 and FSBuild2
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:21 pm
For those pilots that had purchased ASV5 there is a free upgrade to version 6. I did the upgrade and forgot to do a step in another excellent program called FSBuild. Since ASV6 puts a new folder in your FS9/modules folder, FSBuild doesn't know about it, therefore when you do flight planning your winds aloft are not showing up. You have to tell FSBuild where Active Sky is again and then save your configuration and restart FSBuild. Then the next flight plan you do will have the winds aloft and your timing and fuel loads will be much closer to what they really need to be.
This one almost bit me on a long trip back from Moscow when I noticed that FSBuild only stated that it was gonna take 9+ hours to get back using only 180K pounds of fuel. Well being the sharp SAX pilot that I am
, I knew I used more than that getting to Moscow AND I had a tail wind most of the way meaning I was going to have a headwind back therefore I knew these numbers where wrong, but why? Well the winds aloft were missing from the calculations. So after fixing that small but serious problem I am now safely on my way back to the good ole USA.
A good little tip here is if it doesn't look right, it probably isn't. Happy planning!
This one almost bit me on a long trip back from Moscow when I noticed that FSBuild only stated that it was gonna take 9+ hours to get back using only 180K pounds of fuel. Well being the sharp SAX pilot that I am
, I knew I used more than that getting to Moscow AND I had a tail wind most of the way meaning I was going to have a headwind back therefore I knew these numbers where wrong, but why? Well the winds aloft were missing from the calculations. So after fixing that small but serious problem I am now safely on my way back to the good ole USA.A good little tip here is if it doesn't look right, it probably isn't. Happy planning!