Hi Stuart, thanks for taking a look. How was your trip? Hope you logged a
lot of nice flying days! Our weather has been pretty much crap around here
and then the nice days I've had to work or had family stuff, so I've logged
about 5 minutes of (RC) stick time so far in 2011. :-(
Curt.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Stuart Buchanan <stuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Curt,
>
> I've been looking at the altitude problem all evening, but haven't
> (yet) found the bug.
>
> AFAICT the correct altitude (in m) is being passed down the stack and
> used to create an altitude offset, so it's not just a case of the
> stack using the height of the clouds rather than the altitude. It
> looks like there is a further offset elsewhere of the airport altitude
> that's causing the error, but I've yet to find it.
>
> Just so you know I'm not ignoring this...
>
> -Stuart
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Stuart,
> > I saw that you recently made some updates and bug fixes to the "global
> > weather" 3d clouds including fixing a problem with overcast coverage and
> > also making clouds drift with the wind.
> > This afternoon I started up at my local airport (KANE) and did observe
> the
> > clouds drifting, which looks really good. But I also noticed some other
> > discrepancies.
> > The METAR report was (is): 2011/04/28 19:45 KANE 281945Z 36009KT 10SM
> BKN027
> > OVC032 A2981
> > KANE is officially at an altitude of 912' MSL I believe.
> > The global weather dialog box shows that two clouds layers have been
> > created.
> > 1. @ 3612 MSL Broken
> > 2. @ 4112 MSL Overcast
> > This all appears to be correct 912 + 2700 for the broken layer, and 912 +
> > 3200 for the overcast layer.
> > However, when I observe what is actually drawn, I see just one broken
> layer
> > and no overcast layer. In addition, the broken layer is drawn at about
> 2600
> > MSL or 1700 AGL (as reported by the HUD so the layer is drawn about 1000
> > feet too low.)
> > Thanks,
> > Curt.
> > --
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