For example Dyce EGPD to Edinburgh EGPH does not take 1 hour and if you look at the ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/ site and view their weather data they are totally different. So being able to choose when the the system updates would be much better as you could easily be within range of a different weather station.
Regards, Justin smithies On Monday 03 April 2006 18:11, Justin Smithies wrote: > But if your flying would it not be possible you could be in a differnet > region under an hour that has different weather conditions. > I would have thought as most of us use adsl that the option to chage this > would be better. > > Why else does x-plane and fs2004 have this option ? > > Justin Smithies > > On Monday 03 April 2006 18:04, Ron Jensen wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:58 +0100, Justin Smithies wrote: > > > is it possible to make the weather check for updates more often than 1 > > > hourly ? > > > Is there a file that can be modified or prop tree variable ? > > > > > > Justin Smithies > > > > I believe the metar data is only updated hourly at the source so there > > is no point to polling more often. > > > > Sanity check might be nice, though. Last week my local airport was > > reporting 128 knot cross winds! Happend to be the exact instant I was > > trying to run my very first Nasal script. It took me awhile to figure > > out it wasn't a programming error on my part 8^) > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > > language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the > > live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > > coding territory! > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
