Active Sky Next – Service Pack 5 ‘final’ available
This is the final and public release of the new Service Pack 5 for Active Sky Next, the popular environmental solution for FSX/P3D including weather system, HD textures, weather radar, METAR, winds aloft, weather maps… Read more about its content here, or go directly to the downloads page.
Active Sky Next SP5 – Open Beta
It’s not mandatory to update your weather and environment software right now, it’s for use at your own risk if you really want the latest build available. Active Sky Next new update, Service Pack 5, is made for FSX, FSX:SE and P3D pilots. In this forum thread, find the download links and changelog. The popular […]
Active Sky Next SP4.1
Just released by HiFi team, the new Service Pack 4.1 for Active Sky Next is the official update to support P3D v2.5 and P3D v3.2. It definitely solves the issue met with P3D v2.5 compatibility. So enjoy your stable software now, and get the update from http://www.hifisimtech.com/downloads/.
Active Sky next 25% OFF
Join the numerous and satisfied customers of Active Sky Next, it’s the right time to register as HiFi Simulation Technologies run a 25% OFF sale at simMarket for a limited time. An effective and power weather engine, with environment textures at high resolution selected according to your custom preset or the current conditions, a weather radar, […]
Active Sky Next SP4 now Available
HiFi has released the Service Pack 4 for Active Sky Next. Intended for P3D / FSX / FSX:SE, you will get again a bunch of fixes and enhancements. Download here, or click here for full SP4 content info. Various issues related with METAR interpretation for weather depiction, or related with the radar API are now fixed.
Active Sky Next – Service Pack 4 Beta
Take advantage of the new Service Pack 4 Beta for Active Sky Next, as it fixes potential issues with SimConnect, ASConnect and adds the P3D V3 compatibility. For FSX users, they will get rid of any API radar errors or other “invalid simconnect version” message. Find their full announcement here.
HiFi Simulations – New Pricing
On the simMarket store, new pricing has been put in place for their Active Sky range. Active Sky: Next can now be purchased for €29.99 excl VAT (About a €7 reduction) whereas Active Sky: Evolution is now available for €24.99 Excl VAT. If you haven’t already, head over to their respective store page to get […]
Active Sky Next SP3 public release
It’s now safe and highly recommanded to upgrade Active Sky Next with the new Service Pack 3 its final public release. Before any support request, it will be also requested that you have installed it first.
Active Sky Next – SP3 Open Beta B5660
HiFi Technologies keeps on enhancing the Service Pack 3 for Active Sky Next while it’s still in Open Beta process. The new build B5660 has been posted and fixes items related with warnings options (unneeded restart, or failure to save/load, and no more AI traffic impacted by ambient modifications). Here’s their announcement with the change log.
ActiveSkyNext – SP3 Open Beta B5660 Released
HiFi Simulations have released SP3’s Open Beta “B5660” if you haven’t already then you need to head to their site and download the version there. Some changes include: Removed unneeded restart required/resynth message when changing warnings options, Modified ambient handling to not affect AI aircraft for certain parameters including temperature, so that AI contrails will behave normally […]
Active Sky Next : -30% discount at simMarket
The successful weather and environment tool of HiFi Technologies can be yours at a reduced price at simMarket, for a limited time. Enter the shop where you can even try the free demo first. The included weather radar is compatible with PMDG 777 for example.
Active Sky Next Service Pack 2C
With the new Service Pack 2C installed in your Active Sky Next repertory, you will improve again the performance and stability, especially for P3D V2 et FSX Steam Edition. Get the full report of HiFi Technologies by clicking here.
ActiveSky Next SP2 goes official
Following a not inconsiderable open beta test period, HiFi Tech have formally released the latest version of their widely used Active Sky Next package, nominally referred to as Service Pack 2b (SP2B), but also version B5575, for both FSX and P3D. The changelist for version SP2B can be found on the developers’ website here, although the highlights […]
Bryn’s ASN Weather Radar
You may have seen discussion of this recently over at Avsim but, if you haven’t, the 2d weather radar for use with Active Sky Next by Bryn Battersby is getting some very good reviews and comments from users. The author writes; “Because the HiFi hook collects data on cloud positions and writes precipitation to match […]
iFly 737 with ASN Weather Radar
As announced in past December, iFly achieved a partnership with HiFi Technologies to integrate Active Sky Next data in their Navigation Display to add a realistic weather radar as new update for the iFly 737 NG. Just note that it works only for FSX / P3D.
More ActiveSky Updates
It only seems like five minutes since the last set of updates to HiFi Technologies‘ Active Sky Next was released, but versions B5226 for MS FSX and B5227 for P3D v2.2 Open Beta can now be downloaded from the developers’ website. The next time users start up ASN product, they should receive a message advising of this and with […]
ActiveSky Next Hotfix 3 / B5184
HiFi Technologies announced the release, at the end of last week, of Hotfix 3 for ActiveSky Next for FSX, along with B5184 of the open beta for ASN P3D. The changes implemented include fixes for temporary irregularities, comms problems, plus an installation issue and can be downloaded from the developers’ website here. For a list […]
iFly Announces support for ASNext
737NG developers iFly have announced that, in conjunction with HiFi Technologies, their product will soon support accurate precipitation and windshear information from Active Sky Next on its displays. The update will be for FSX and P3Dv2 versions of the iFly 737NG only – the FS9 version will not receive this upgrade – and release is […]
FSUIPC Updated to 4.924
Users of Pete Dowson’s FSUIPC4 for FSX and Prepar3D have another update in the form of a full new installer for version 4.924 of the utility. A full list of changes is included in the installer zip file – which as usual can be found on Pete’s support forum here – but of particular interest […]
Active Sky Next release date !
There are many new information about Active Sky Next, the new weather and environment software of the long experienced team will be launched on next Monday December 09th, for FSX and soon after for P3D / P3D v2. An upgrade price policy will be applied for all owners of an older Active Sky product (either […]
Active Sky Next soon
The new Active Sky NEXT for FSX and P3D is still being developed by HiFi Technologies, to take over the actual Active Sky 2012. They are “getting close” to completion, but no release date has been announced yet. Damian Clark and his team announce it will bring a new level of realism, accuracy and smoothness. A […]
New Active Sky : more details
The future Active Sky will be branded Active Sky Next “ASN”. HiFi Tech accepted to explain with more technical depth how the numerous features will work. First of all, after the FSX version, there will be a separated Prepar3d product… and ASN will display a new user interface oriented to more “flexibility, with resizeable, undockable […]