Very good service indeed (noaa.gov). I put the metar-max-age-min back at 240 min as it don't make much difference to me.
fuba duba > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Melchior FRANZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "FlightGear user discussions" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Anybody getting ready to fly hurricane Flo > out of Bermuda (TXKF)? > Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:28:50 +0200 > > > * fuba duba -- 9/10/2006 5:12 PM: > > Thanks for the excellent explanation. Very helpful. > > You are welcome, but ... > > > > > if you have set metar-max-age-min to a small value, then many data > > > sets will be dropped and you'll see *less* weather changes. > > ... this wasn't entirely correct. (I hadn't looked at the code, and still > haven't, though I wrote that part.) If fgfs encounters a METAR data set > older than metar-max-age-min, then it will drop it and take the second > nearest, and if that's too old, too, the third nearest etc. After a few > failed > attempts (10?) it will simply stop using real-time weather, so as not to > put a too high load on the noaa.gov server. (We don't want to piss them > off and risk losing the service. :-) > > m. -- ___________________________________________________ Now you can search for products and services http://search.mail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
