Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-08 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
Hmm. As far as I know, METAR snow information only focuses on the runway surface. Imagine a nice sunny day in late march, where the runway is just dry asphalt, yet there can be lots of snow in the ground. On the other hand, if the runway surface has snow, we can pretty safely assume it exists on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-07 Thread Robert
Is it possible to automatically set the turbulence based on METAR? Does METAR contain this information? -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-07 Thread Jari Häkkinen
On 2011-12-07 09.02, Robert wrote: Does METAR contain this information? Not directly. METAR may contain information about gusty winds which is an indication of turbulence. Jari -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-06 Thread Csaba Halász
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Gijs de Rooy gijsr...@hotmail.com wrote: I wrote a Nasal script, everything works fine, but I stumble accross a problem with my listener. For some reason the snow-cover property seems to be tied and therefore it always reports nil to a listener (AndersG said

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Gijs, here is a better solution: there is a property valid in /environment/metar which fires the listeners. The property is true if and only if there given metar string is a valid metar report. The valid property will be written true every time a new metar string is written (and parsed).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-06 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi Csaba and Torsten, valid thanks for the tip! Seems to work fine now. Will do some more testing and cleanups before I commit the working stuff :) Gijs -- Cloud Services

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Csaba wrote: -Original Message- From: Halász [mailto:csaba.hal...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 December 2011 16:55 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Gijs de Rooy gijsr...@hotmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Snow line based on METAR

2011-12-06 Thread Csaba Halász
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Vivian Meazza vivian.mea...@lineone.net wrote: I'm not sure that this is correct. Nasal listeners don't mind if a property is tied or not - this must be true or else weather-utility.nas wouldn't work to untie properties for use by effects. Effects use c++