I was working on an unrelated issue and got distracted by yet another
issue and switched course mid stream.
That uncovered a potential problem with the tutorials for the c172p and
the weather system.
It appears if I have Advanced weather - METAR selected in the
QT-Launcher and load at a random airport, then run the Amphibious
takeoff tutorial (maybe others as well), the tutorial is written to
change the METAR mode to Fair Weather using the following initialization
<set>
<property>/environment/weather-scenario</property>
<value>Fair weather</value>
</set>
What appears to be happening is it is changing the property and thus the
field in the GUI but I don't think it is changing the actual mode.
Worse, depending on where your original starting airport is it can also
create some really bad visuals with the clouds, but not always.
I am not the original author of most of the code and used existing
examples to create these tutorials. This issue could potentially be in
every tutorial in the c172p and any other tutorial throughout the
aircraft base where the developer used these tutorials as reference.
From USCC METAR mode to the tutorial at PHNL I get cloud formations
like this
http://i.imgur.com/2aCWKDy.png
http://i.imgur.com/UC2EUo0.png
From KEQA METAR mode to the tutorial at PHNL I get this
http://i.imgur.com/pY2phJK.png
Is there a proper way in the tutorial code to change the weather mode in
Advanced weather or would it be best not to attempt to change the
weather mode at all in the tutorial?
Thanks,
Wayne
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