The #1 Weather Engine for FS2004 just got even better!

Resources

Did You Know?

Flight Simulator Community Links:

AVSIM
AVSIM is our community "home" and offers some of the best forums, downloads and resources for sim pilots everywhere!

SimFlight
SimFlight is another great sim community site - give them a visit!

FlightSim.com
One of the original sim sites, Flightsim.com continues to provide great downloads and news resources as well as forums.

FlightSim Network
Offers reviews, articles, file library and forums.

FSZone
Yet another great sim site!
 

Wonderful add-ons for FS2004:

JDT, LLC
Makers of Radar Contact v4 - The latest realism-based ATC solution for FS9!

Real-Air Simulations Aircraft
Superb flight models and immersive panels set these aircraft apart from the rest...

PMDG Aircraft
Extremely realistic Boeing airliner aircraft add-ons.

RealityXP Gauges
The best avionics and gauges available!

Dreamfleet Aircraft
These guys put out some great aircraft!

Real-world aviation and weather links:

NOAA's Aviation Weather Center
NOAA provides many resources and weather information access for pilots.

Landings
A comprehensive resource database for everything aviation.

Weather.com
The Weather Channel's site offers great USA weather overviews.

MyAirplane.com
Get free charts and IFR plates + DP/STARS!

MetEd
Meteorology education and training site

How the Weather Works
Great weather education and graphics from USA TODAY.

ASVE was programmed by Damian Clark and graphical texture content was created by Chris Willis.  Support and Usability Design Assistance is provided by Jim Skorna. 

Work first began on developing ActiveSky back in 2001.  The first version (original ActiveSky) was released in early 2002.  Since then, we've released ActiveSky wxRE (December 2002), ActiveSky 2004 (December 2003), ActiveSky 2004.5 (November 2004), ASV (June 2005) and just recently: ASV Enhanced (October 2005).

The ActiveSky private beta team is a core group of approximately 30 members who have been testing the product's various versions since 2002.  They put many hours into testing and interacting with the development team on a daily basis.  Most of them are actual real-world Pilots and all of them have extensive simulation and weather experience.  Several members hold advanced degrees in aeronautics and meteorology.

The various ActiveSky versions have earned numerous awards for Best Flight Sim Add-on Utility and Best Weather Engine.  Our most recent award was given by SimFlight for AS2004 (Best FS Tool).

Damian Clark, Programmer and Lead Developer, is a Commercial Pilot Certificate holder with Multi-Engine and Instrument Ratings.

The HiFi DataNet took over 2 years to develop and consists of 3 separate servers (2 collection/distribution, 1 collection/control).  The system is responsible for collecting weather data automatically from several different sources, synthesizing it into station-based data, archiving snapshots, and providing the real-time or archived data to AS users in a secure (encrypted) and efficient format.  Over 30 gigabytes of weather data are collected and served each day!

(c) 2005 HiFi Simulation Software