On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:19:37 -0500, Berndt, wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi, > > > > I am experimenting with structural icing and am hacking on a > > little nasal script that checks outside temperature and > > dewpoint to guess if the aircraft is currently in a potential > > icing area and pack some ice on the surfaces. > > To get ice on the wings one thing is needed besides low > > temperatures: water. > > Any idea to find out, if the aircraft is currently within > > clouds (usually made of water)? Or even better what type of > > cloud, to guess the severity of icing? > > > > I tried /environment/visibility, but that stays to whatever > > is visibility on ground. Is there another property for > > current visibility? > > > > Thanks, Torsten > > The UIUC guys have donea lot of research in this area. You miht google > them (UIUC SELIG ICING) and see what comes up). ..to chk what these guys did with FG, build it from source or cvs and enable the UIUC fdm's, chk out './configure --help |less ', at least ste standard Debian debs omits the UIUC fdm's. For a complete list of options use --help --verbose [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ fgfs -h -v |less [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ fgfs --show-aircraft |less -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
