Re: [Flightgear-users] starting with an overcast layer

[Curtis O. <cur...@gm...>]

Hi Ben,

There was some recent work with the environment manager system.  Hopefully
someone else can speak more authoritatively on this, but you may need to
specify your desired initial conditions as a METAR string.

Can we still set individual properties like this?

Curt.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Ben Weir wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to do use Flightgear to practice instrument flying and I want
> flightgear to start up with an overcast layer.  I've been trying to have
> the layer at 800 feet MSL and 1500 feet thick.  I realize I could set
> this in the GUI but would prefer to specify on the command line.
>
> I'm running FG 1.9.1 and have tried all kinds of command lines without
> satisfactory results.  All of these have no apparent effect:
>
> --ceiling=800:1500
>
> --prop:/environment/clouds/layer/coverage=overcast \
> --prop:/environment/clouds/layer/elevation-ft=800 \
> --prop:/environment/clouds/layer/thickness-ft=1500
>
> --prop:/environment/clouds/layer/type=overcast \
> --prop:/environment/clouds/layer/elevation-ft=800 \
> --prop:/environment/clouds/layer/thickness-ft=1500
>
> I've also tried the last two options with "layer[0]" and "layer[1]"
> (really stabbing in the dark here) but with no effect.  I even tried
> specifying a ceiling with "--metar" which I found from googling the
> topic but which seems to have been deprecated.
>
> The only command line parameter I've found so far that did anything with
> the clouds was "--enable-real-weather-fetch" ... however I don't
> necessarily want the real weather, I want to specify my own.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated, I feel sad that I've spent the last
> hour trying to get this simple thing working without luck
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
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