On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 13:04 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Andreas Hasenack -- Sunday 25 February 2007: > > Can I input an arbitrary metar in flightgear 0.9.10 (linux)? > > There are two ways: > > (1) Use the "metar" program that comes with fgfs. It does not only > fetch METAR data from a station, but does also decode a METAR > string. If you use the -c option, then it outputs a set of > properties, that you can use directly in FlightGear. (I'm not > sure if all or them are still right, though.) E.g.: > > $ fgfs `metar -e 183 -c "LOWL 161500Z 19004KT 160V240 ..."` > > Note that you need to specify the elevation, or the cloud > layers are placed wrongly (ASL rather than AGL). How do you get the updating weather to apply the elevation correction? > > (2) Use the metarproxy program from /utils/metarproxy/. > It can be used to record and replay METAR data, and you can, > of course, add hand-crafted METAR sets to its data, too. > You just need to make sure that you run fgfs at a time for > which data is available. >
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