Torsten Dreyer wrote:
> > I like the idea of being able to pass in arbitrary METAR strings. That
> > would allow a person to easily fly with interesting weather copied from
> > some other location or time. Or even we could setup challenges like fly
> > this approach with this weather, etc.
> >
> > Keep in mind that we estimate cloud tops for METAR weather, so whatever we
> > do shouldn't prevent someone from customizing cloud top altitudes and wind
> > layers from within FlightGear or through the property interface.
>
> Keeping that in mind, I just started working on the following idea:
>
> Step #.
> - move the hard coded metar strings for scenarios Thunderstorm and Fair
> weather to preferences.xml and just keep two hard coded scenarios: METAR (aka
> real-weather-fetch) and none.
> - provide scenarios in preferences.xml like Thunderstorm, Fair weather,
> Minimum VFR, CAT I minimum, CAT II minimum etc.
> - change the weather_scenario dialog to read the combo box options from
> preferences.xml
A great idea. In fact it was something I was thinking about when I was doing
the 3D clouds code, but decided that I had quite enough on my plate at the time!
Obviously you'd want to be able to generate arbritary scenarios either in
preferences.xml,
of the aircraft -set.xml.
-Stuart
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