Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR wrong, at least on one airport

2010-11-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
If I check the METAR data for LFST using another program (AeroWeather on the iPhone for example or the metar utility for debian from the http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/metar package), I receive correct METAR data for LFST. So METAR fetching in FlightGear is wrong. FlightGear uses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR wrong, at least on one airport

2010-11-16 Thread Guy Brand
On Nov 16, Torsten Dreyer wrote: FlightGear uses NOAA as a data source for METAR. The url to fetch the data is http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/.txt where xxx is the ICAO 4-Letter code of the airport in uppercase. We simply rely on the NOAA data - if the

[Flightgear-devel] ProFlightSimulator The Most Realistic Flight Sim Ever

2010-11-16 Thread Mally
?Looks familiar? http://www.proflightsimulator.com/index3.html Not to be confused with FlightProSim (obviously). Mally - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3259 - Release Date: 11/15/10

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ProFlightSimulator The Most Realistic Flight Sim Ever

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Dan Freeman has a few articles on Ezine, however I have just reported him to Ezine. Ezine reports he is based in the USA, yet his business trades out of NZ. Dodgy. I have suggested Ezine remove him from their site, based on his/her/its continued unwillingness to adhere to the explicit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ProFlightSimulator The Most Realistic Flight Sim Ever

2010-11-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Mally wrote: ?Looks familiar? http://www.proflightsimulator.com/index3.html Not to be confused with FlightProSim (obviously). I'm curious about the claimed SimConnect FSUIPC compatibility. :D Which one of you lurking geniuses submitted THAT patch, hrm? *laughs* g. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ProFlightSimulator The Most Realistic Flight Sim Ever

2010-11-16 Thread Curtis Olson
Out of curiosity, has anyone been able to obtain a copy of their source code? Could this be posted in a known location? Or is there a known link for downloading their code? It might be useful for us to maintain a reference copy ourselves somewhere. It should be no problem to get a copy of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ProFlightSimulator The Most Realistic Flight Sim Ever

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Wilkinson
For the Windows brethren I'd be inclined to run a virus checker over that package before opening it. Spybots, virii, and trojans run hand in hand with the scammer community... I'm curious to see how old that source is, so will download a copy tonite... Regards, Chris Wilkinson, YBBN/BNE.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ProFlightSimulator The Most Realistic Flight Sim Ever

2010-11-16 Thread syd adams
While I tend to ignore these now, I am giving them a poor WOT score :) On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Chris Wilkinson blobster...@yahoo.com.au wrote: For the Windows brethren I'd be inclined to run a virus checker over that package before opening it. Spybots, virii, and trojans run hand in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR wrong, at least on one airport

2010-11-16 Thread Scott Hamilton
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 17:52 +0100, Torsten Dreyer wrote: If I check the METAR data for LFST using another program (AeroWeather on the iPhone for example or the metar utility for debian from the http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/metar package), I receive correct METAR data for LFST.