>>>>>>As a separate issue: With rare exceptions, the largest visibility you will see reported in a metar is 10SM (in the US) or 9999 (meters, elsewhere).
This is a problem for real-weather fetch, because the _reported_ visibility can be significantly less than the _real_ visibility. I have tried to think of a heuristic to solve this problem, without success. Sometimes a report of 10SM means 10SM and no more, but sometimes it means unlimited visibility. [...] The FG scenery looks nice when the visibility is unlimited. It would be a shame to stumble into a situation where typical users were stuck with 10SM visibility instead of the really real visibility. [...] The bold solution would be to map 10SM and 9999 meters to unlimited visibility ... but I'm not bold enough to recommend that. >>>>>> >From a users viewpoint, 10SM on a monitor looks like less to the eye than 10SM >looking out the window. It would be a disservice to the scenery to run the >risk of unlimited visibility being presented as 10SM. IMHO there is no choice other than the bold solution- anything reported as 10SM = unlimited, and 9.99 and less is actual. Peter Brown Sent from Smooth Water Sports, your Malibu Boat Dealer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
