Martin Doege wrote:
Of course the tide calculations would not be required to be extremely accurate à la xtide -- the hour angle of the Moon would probably be quite sufficient as a broad indication of tide.
It would have to be slightly more than just that. At the very least, you'd need a delay-factor for the local hour-angle of the moon. Also an amplitude-factor.
Even then, you'd sometimes get the tide happening about an hour displaced from reality due to the loss of the solar tide. If you added a simple solar tide (i.e a delay factor for the local solar hour-angle and a solar-tide amplitude-factor) then you'd probably be getting a pretty good rough approximation for a given area. Good enough for a flight-sim, certainly.
It would also better model those areas of the world where the solar tide dominates and there's only one significant tide per day.
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