On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > The original intention was that it only overwrote your custom setting when > METAR reports snow at a lower altitude than that set by the user. So if > you've set it to 3000m, but a station at 1500m reports snow, the snow level > moves down to 1500m. You can then lower it even further, let's say to 1000m. > As the station altitude is now above the snow line, it will stay at 1000m. > Apparently this part was broken, as it was set back to 1500m after releasing > the mouse. > > I just commited a fix to Git (at least it works as I intended it to work > now), please check if that works for you. > > If the METAR reports no snow, nothing happens. Right now it only checks for > the nearest METAR station, but one could think of extending that to all the > METARS that are available in the property tree...
That might be worth thinking about, though I suspect it would be rather laborious to do so using property rules. My main issue with it is that it can result in the snow level moving during a cross-country flight. Some time last year, when there was some snow in Scotland, I found it quite distracting as the snow appear then disappeared seemingly at random as I was flying, depending on whether the nearest airport was reporting snow in their METAR or not. Fundamentally, I don't think that the METAR information provides a good enough proxy for the snow level. That's a limitation of the input data, not your algorithm, which is perfectly reasonable. I've added a control parameter, so I'm quite happy :) -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
