Gauge to display Metar data

[vololiberista]

Thanks Tom.

But Ewwwwwwwwww.. Nasty !!!
So in FSX, EVERY "broken or Overcast" Cumulonimbus is causing an active Thunderstorm ??

FSX Atis seems to be able to determine if the Thunderstorm is Moderate or Severe.

Is it a case that if ANY Cumulonimbus is set in the weather, to be "broken or Overcast", it will always cause FSX to produce the Thunder/Lightening effect, or is there really a more precise control ?

The more I look at FSX weather, the less I am impressed. Hopefully Lockheed will consider correcting some of these features in later versions of P3D.

So, for the time being, I will assume, if there is "broken or Overcast" Cumulonimbus, then it is probably a Thunderstorm "in the Vicinity"

I guess this is what REAL Pilots assume as well, to be safe !!

In my weather radar it states that certain images are triggered by lightning. If you can ascertain if lightning has occurred in the sim then that would obviously be more accurate!!
vololiberista

 

[taguilo]

In my weather radar it states that certain images are triggered by lightning....

How is that, which weather radar are you using??

Tom

 

[vololiberista]

CWR Radar for fs9
Here's an extract from the manuel

If STORM mode is selected the range polygon of a station is filled with a thunderstorm theme
bitmap, if there is a cloud layer type “thunderstorm” present at this station.
This display does not check the altitude window, because this data is not read with a radar
beam. The Storm Scope measures the electromagnetic field of a lightning, and calculates its
position.
The 8 different precipitation theme bitmaps are created out of real weather radar display data.
The CWR displays you following information:
“dense of lightning coverage” (0 to 8/8).
The STORM scope page shows you the position of lightning only. So you can exactly find
position of thunderstorms.
This is also used in real aircrafts.

If that makes sense??
viololiberista

 

[taguilo]

CWR Radar for fs9
....
If that makes sense??
viololiberista

Detecting thunderstorms by detecting the position of lightnings in FS?? No sense at all, sorry. There is no weather radar of any kind, in any FS version, that shows a very precise cloud situation (volume, quantity, severity, etc) depicted by FS at any moment. Not even RealityXP WX500, which is one of -if not - the best out there.

Tom

 

[Geoff_D]

I am seeing in FSX that if ANY Cumulonimbus is set in the weather, to be "broken or Overcast", it will always cause FSX to produce the Thunder/Lightening effect, even if there is no rain.

Well, if thats the criteria that FSX uses, I guess thats what I should process to have a Thunderstorm Detector. Seems to work ---(so I'm Happy)

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While looking for METAR Decode solutions, I also came across a program that my "Old Friends" FLAPSOUT at "innergears" wrote...

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-5254.html

http://www.innergears.com/InnerGears.zip

The FSX Metar decode seems to work fine, but I think the external METAR part no longer works, (Maybe cannot get the metar into off the Internet ?)

Anyway, it's a useful tool to Decode FSX Metars, and allows you to edit the metar, and re-submit it to the decoder., and inject back into FSX.

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As far as a STORM SCOPE is concerned -- sounds COOL -- but have yet to see one that works in FSX. -- If it is possible, would be a nice additional gauge to the RADAR Tower Controller !!

 

[jamarogers]

Haven't you guys ever heard of SimVar and its GETWX command?...pretty simple to extract the current metar code for any given weather staton!

 

[flythesimskies]

Hello jamarogers. I have not heard of SimWar or GETWX,; I'm particularly interested in getting a destination's METARs? How does one obtain those? Also, for GeoffD, there is a simple way, at least I think there it is, to get current and detail info. for FS WX.
Step 1: Of course have FSUIPC.
Step 2. Run FSInterrogate (FSUIPC SDK), it lists all the weather available FSUIPC offsets and it shows the datatype and the math required to convert to useful information.
Step 3: Write a lua to retrieve the offset(s) and assign to a lua variable (L:***). For example: Storm Cloud Base = offset (0EAC).
Step 4: Ensure FSUIPC.ini has the lua running in [Auto] section.
Step 5: Write XML code accessing the L:***

 

[=rk=]

Step 1: Of course have FSUIPC.
Step 2. Run FSInterrogate (FSUIPC SDK), it lists all the weather available FSUIPC offsets and it shows the datatype and the math required to convert to useful information.
Step 3: Write a lua to retrieve the offset(s) and assign to a lua variable (L:***). For example: Storm Cloud Base = offset (0EAC).
Step 4: Ensure FSUIPC.ini has the lua running in [Auto] section.
Step 5: Write XML code accessing the L:***

Step 6: Check calendar and consider what effect state of development, over the nearly seven intervening years, has had upon the relevancy of this thread.

Weather Radar | REX Simulations

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[flythesimskies]

Hello. Thank you for your reply. I've communicated with REX and I wanted software to work on another computer/network? They said it is not possible and must install REX on a computer that has the simulator installed on it." So REX does not do what I need. I did however find the answer to my own question. In an old file of FSUIPC's SDK. It has weatherset.exe and weatherset2.exe; which does exactly what I needed - a way to get the METAR of an airport in FS. But thank you REX for the information.