* William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 18:53:
After last
evening's snow and today's wind, the METAR from KABE is a bit messed
up, and the parser that extracts the conditions went wild and
clobbered who-knows-what in the properties.
Sorry, but no. This is neither messed up, nor does it
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 18:53:
After last
evening's snow and today's wind, the METAR from KABE is a bit messed
up, and the parser that extracts the conditions went wild and
clobbered who-knows-what in the properties.
Sorry, but no. This is neither
* William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 20:10:
The missing item was the sky condition field,
but the weather applet in RH reported it as invalid.
Ok. SimGear is a bit more liberal. After all, many/most reports are generated
by humans, and I didn't want to throw the whole message away
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
With no sky report, FG showed the default scattered condition.
Really? It shouldn't display scattered by default if METAR is on. Only
CAVOK should creat a scattered layer.
This is probably the network detection code kicking in. After three
failed attempts, three seconds
* Erik Hofman -- Sunday 23 January 2005 21:14:
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* * William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 20:10:
With no sky report, FG showed the default scattered condition.
Really? It shouldn't display scattered by default if METAR is on. Only
CAVOK should creat a scattered
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* Erik Hofman -- Sunday 23 January 2005 21:14:
This is probably the network detection code kicking in. After three
failed attempts, three seconds apart (if I recall it correctly) the code
will not do any further attempts to get the data
I know, but I thought William is
