Thanks for the links , I'll do some reading tonight . I was just a surprised
because I hadn't seen it mentioned on the dev-list . Or I just missed that
one maybe :)
Cheers
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:01 AM, <thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi> wrote:
>
> > Glad to know it's just not me. I wonder if it has anything to do with
> > this new cloud creating menu ?
>
> Certainly not - completely separate system.
>
> > Which I haven't quite figured out the purpose of ,
> > wasn't the METAR string supposed to
> > handle the user defined weather ?
>
> If you pass a METAR string to the system, it changes the weather globally
> (i.e. everywhere you fly from there, the weather will look the same, until
> you pass a new string, then it will change everywhere). If
> you use the 'local weather' menu items to generate weather, this is not
> the case - you can fly to the edge of cloud layers, you can see rain from
> the outside and so on. Different philosophy, different technology,
> different aims. See
>
> http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/A_local_weather_system
>
> for details or
>
> http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/files/README.local_weather.html
>
> for the documentation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> * Thorsten
>
>
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