Active Sky and Air Hauler 2.

[dave]

Hi Guys,
I have both ASNG and AH2, both of which I enjoy. Unfortunately I can't get them to work together.
Both work fine individually with my copy of FSX SE But will not work together. I do have the 'Use AH2 weather generator' switched off.
Does anybody know of a work around for this?

I do have a little 'niggle' with AS in that FSX needs two attempts to boot up, the first time around I get a message saying that FSX needs to be restarted to load in files.

Because of that my boot up process is as follows

Start ASNG
Start FSX
Get error message
Close down FSX
Launch AH2

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I do miss realistic weather as I fly my little Cessna 172 around the world in Nomad mode.

[UncleJoe]

Originally posted by dave:

Hi Guys,
I have both ASNG and AH2, both of which I enjoy. Unfortunately I can't get them to work together.
Both work fine individually with my copy of FSX SE But will not work together. I do have the 'Use AH2 weather generator' switched off.
Does anybody know of a work around for this?

Have you checked on this at the AH forum? The developer is hanging around there and may have some words of wisdom for you. https://ah2.justflight.com/

EDIT: I jsut did a quick check of the AH forum and it seems others, too, have problems with AS. But the AH developer uses AS himself without problems and is, therefore, referring users to AS for solutions.

[Kronovan]

Are you sure that the correct AffinityMask= value is set in your FSX.CFG? I ask, because HiFi Simulation Technologies (developers of ASN) are particular about having that enabled.

For a 4 (quad) core CPU without hyperthreading, that value should be set to 14. For a hyperthreading 4 core it should be set to 84. For FSX, a dual core CPU can't have an effective affinity mask set for it.

[ArnMan]

Mine is working fine.

Use AH2 in networked mode.
Configure the settings of AH2 to save the flight files to your FSX save game location - most likely

C:\Users\....\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files


Here is my process:

Start ASnext
Start FSX
Get error
close FSX
Start FSX
Start AH2

You will need to start FSX before you fly a job in AH2.

Set up your job in AH2 and accept it to where it will save the flight file and flight plan. You will get a message in AH2 to load the FLT file in FSX. Go to FSX and load a save game but choose the AH2.flt file as your save game and choose 'Fly Now'. Go back to AH2 and select OK to start the AH2 tracking. You should see a process that shows the connecting of AH2 to FSX. Once connected click OK. Go to FSX and fly your route.

Active Sky works fine. Networked mode side steps having AH2 launch FSX.

Well, that's the way I am doing it. Good luck.

[manusos903]

Active Sky Net quit working for me. I had my PC in the shop a week ago, and when I got it back, I went to do a flight, and now Active Sky Net won't work. That AH2 is kind of steep in price. Anywhere else I get it cheaper?