B596 is now publicly available for BETA testing from our Support and Downloads page.  Future in-progress builds will be posted here as they become available.

Currently, we are focusing on the following major items:

1) Improvements for FS9 weather write communications and prevention of visible cloud/weather shifts. 

2) Proper depiction of Hurricanes in FSX.

Update 1A had a problem that created new visibility issues in FS9.  This has been corrected and the new update 1B is now available.

Interim Update 1B fixes some problems with visibility depiction and cloud selection at higher altitudes. Please visit our Support and Downloads page to get your update.

Service Pack 1 for Active Sky Evolution has been released! This update for ASE provides several fixes and enhancements and is a recommended update for all ASE users.  Visit the Support and Downloads page to download your update now!

Revision Log:

Service Pack 1:

All ASA customers can upgrade to ASE at no charge by visiting our support and downloads page. This offer is available for a limited time, so get your upgrade now!

Note that the free upgrade applies to ASA only, not previous products.

Active Sky Evolution has been released! This next installment in the Active Sky series brings further refinement and accuracy in weather synthesis and depiction, improved smoothing, increased high-fidelity aircraft compatibility, a new graphical look and many other behind-the-scenes improvements to further increase your desktop flight and weather simulation experience!

Active Sky Advanced has won the flugsimulation.com 2009 Best Payware Tool Award! Thanks to all our customers, supporters, staff and developers!

With three or more locations where users can post questions and ask for support, the support staff is asking that you just chose one of those means or locations to post or write to us. We know you want the best support possible, and we want to provide that to you, so there is no need to post for support issues here, at AVSIM, and/or through our e-mail system all at the same time. It is my main responsibility to answer to all these locations and it is enough just to post in one place, but confusing if you post in more than one. We thank you in advance for your support and co-operation!

In-development builds of ASA are now available for public beta testing. You can find them in the support and download section. They will be updated and made available periodically as new enhancements/fixes are implemented, providing virtually immediate availability of changes. As these are beta builds without full testing, there may be certain problems and you should always use a beta build at your own risk. Please make bug reports to support@hifisim.com indicating which build you are running. Thanks for your participation!

A technical support FAQ for ASA is now available here. Please take a look at this before posting a technical support question as your issue may already be noted. We will amend this FAQ as new common issues are discovered.

ASA SP1 has been officially released and is now available at our downloads page!

This update has been in beta for the past several months and with the help of the beta teams both internal and public, loads of enhancements and fixes have been made.  SP1 is a recommended update for all ASA users.