Am Sonntag 10 Februar 2008 schrieb Heiko Schulz:
> ...
> It seems to mee, that METAR is not used correctly.
> METAR ssems alright to me, if in RL the visibility is
> under 11nm, ti is in FGFS too. But above 11nm - FGFS
> can't show this....

Note that METAR itself only codes visibility up to 9999 m. Everything above 
comes out of the report as 9999 too. In reality it is sometimes much higher 
(witnessed 50-60NM myself on a cold springday), sometimes not. Think someone 
did a conservative choice here.

Thomas

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