On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 20:14 -0400, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 01:21, John Wojnaroski wrote: > > A change that large (13 knots!!) is a major wind shear. > > > > Might it make sense to provide some sort of filtering or extrapolation > > between stations to moderate such extreme changes > > > > Regards > > John W. > > I also find it extremely annoying. > > This also relates to the "why does my aircraft jerk suddenly" question that > we > get occasionly. Some people like to think that it is some sort of > turbulence, but the not-very-well-thought-out weather simulation routine is > the most likely suspect. > > As John said, instead of relying on just one set of data from a single > station, it might make sense to take data from all the surrounding stations > and perform some extrapolation. > > Ampere
Or perhaps perform an interpolation over several seconds when updating/changing the weather? The approach to my favorite airport (KHIF runway 14) passes over another airport (KODG) with metar weather. As a result I almost always see a major weather shift on very short final. Ron ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
