On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > How about this? > > --metar="27012KT 2SM OVC1000 15/14 Q1001 NOSIG" > > It will set weather-scenario to METAR and disable real-weather-fetch. > > Needs just a little coding and gives some flexibility. But it probably is > not > very intuitive for the average user. And the robustness of the METAR parser > has to be tested, but that's probably a good idea anyway. > > I'd really like this options, but I am used to reading a METAR, so my vote > does not really count ;-)
I like the idea of being able to pass in arbitrary METAR strings. That would allow a person to easily fly with interesting weather copied from some other location or time. Or even we could setup challenges like fly this approach with this weather, etc. Keep in mind that we estimate cloud tops for METAR weather, so whatever we do shouldn't prevent someone from customizing cloud top altitudes and wind layers from within FlightGear or through the property interface. Best regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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