I once went from reasonable headwind to strong crosswind during short final. It was quite exciting.
I am in favor of interpolating weather changes, rather than the wall of weather. On 7/15/07, Stuart Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Wind shear cause by METAR updates is a common problem in FG, especially > around the San Francisco bay, where there are a large number of airports with > METAR, and quite localized weather conditions. > > As a first attempt to solve this, I've made some simple changes to the > environment manager to apply the METAR changes more slowly, available here: > > http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/Environment.diff > > This doesn't affect the cloud layers (yet), as the METAR data is written > straight to the cloud layers, rather than via a config tree. Does anyone have > any insight into why this might be? > > Comments very welcome. > > -Stuart > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Hans Fugal Fugal Computing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
