Hi, > I don't really know what to make of it...but hope solution > can be found as I've started to grow tired of real-weather-fetch and > would like to be able to set up more realistic (and less annoying) > weather conditions, for longer distance cross country trips > especially.
Somewhat loosely related: Since I am just in the process of adding wind and cloud drift to the local weather package (which would in essence bypass the interpolation done by the standard menu), I am curious to get a few opinions besides my own: What level of detail in the windfield would you like to see implemented, and on what level of detail would you like to be able to configure it? I'm asking because: In principle, modelling a mean airmass movement corresponding to the large-scale spiralling into low pressure areas, differential in altitude, with a moderate level of local deviation from that (i.e. a circular low altitude influx into a Cb cell with corresponding high altitude outflux) is not too difficult. Getting mountain winds at low altitude right is somewhat more of a challenge, I don't know yet if that can be done properly. However, if you have a 4-d windfield (wind direction and speed changing in space and time), to specify that in a configuration dialog would require you to specify O(100) numbers at the least - that's not really feasible, so the windfield would have to be generated automatically based on some rough user input. On the other hand, if you like a more simplified wind model (like in the current menu) it is possible to user-specify it completely. That's why I'd be interested what people who fly with offline weather (don't seem to be that many apart from myself...) would like to use. Cheers, * Thorsten P.S. @All: I assume my proposal for a changed environment controller does not generate any excitement here on the list... So, I guess I'll take the discussion back to the forum then - it was worth a try here :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
