* fuba duba -- 9/10/2006 5:12 PM:
 > Thanks for the excellent explanation. Very helpful.

You are welcome, but ...


 > > if you have set metar-max-age-min to a small value, then many data
 > > sets will be dropped and you'll see *less* weather changes.

... this wasn't entirely correct. (I hadn't looked at the code, and still
haven't, though I wrote that part.) If fgfs encounters a METAR data set
older than metar-max-age-min, then it will drop it and take the second
nearest, and if that's too old, too, the third nearest etc. After a few 
failed
attempts (10?) it will simply stop using real-time weather, so as not to
put a too high load on the noaa.gov server. (We don't want to piss them
off and risk losing the service. :-)

m.


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