> Hmm, perhaps it would be appropriate to bash up a script that figures > out a sane contrail altitude based on the other weather settings/data. > (not that this has anything to do with the original problem). How would > one go about calculating something like that?
The problem with that is that you have to climb to about 30000 feet to see the contrails. This makes contrail development difficult. It's much easier to set the contrail level at 5000 feet or something, which is what I did with the 737 while developing/demonstrating submodel-based contrails. We have too kinds of weather in FG basically - predefined weather in preferences.xml, and real-weather-fetch. I think the contrail level should always be user-configurable by default, and if you want to use real-weather-fetch then the METAR code can override the default. This is how it works now with cloud layers and such. Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
