It shouldn't be too hard to implement real time weather by downloading the METAR weather and pushing it into flightgear. I imagine a wrapper script that gets the weather, decodes it, telnets into fgfs and modifies the environment properties.
Before I do this, is there anyone else already looking at it? I don't want to reinvent the wheel or intrude on someone else's work.
That would be a great project to start - as that hard part is already done :)
All you have to do is to make WeatherCM publish its data to the properties that the FDM et al are expecting.
WeatherCM already can download realtime (sort of... it's data that's less than a few hours old) weather data.
It can also interpolate between the different weather stations (worldwide, with a real spherical interpolation) - which is the most complex part of the code.
And it does publish its data via the properties (athough not those that are currently used by the FDM).
So just give it a try.
CU, Christian
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