From: Torsten D. <To...@t3...> - 2010-07-13 18:17:35
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> I seem to have a problem getting my weather conditions and winds aloft > to behave correctly. I set weather scenario to disabled, input my > weather and winds aloft data using the weather conditions dialog, but > weather does not behave as input. The problem is especially apparent > with winds aloft data, which does not pick up the winds aloft data > correctly, and in many cases not at all. I input various wind > directions, speeds, temperatures, etc for different altitudes > (3000-15000ft in this case), yet when I climb to those altitudes and > check the environment and other data I can see they are completely > incorrect and not being honored at all. > > Entering the following for winds aloft for example: > > 15000ft -- 300 @ 16 > 12000ft -- 310 @ 14 > 9000ft -- 320 @ 12 > 6000ft -- 280 @ 10 > 3000ft -- 270 @ 9 > > I would expect if I am flying level at 12000ft for example, that I > should encounter winds VERY close to 310@14...yet I do not. Aloft > layers seem to often not get picked up at all, or not picked up past > the first or second aloft layer...becoming increasingly wrong the > higher the altitude. Cruising at 12000ft example, changing the > parameters for the 12000 layer has no effect at all, neither for > surrounding layers 9000/15000...though sometimes changing the bottom > layer (3000 in this case) does show immediate effect on > aircraft...though the result is incorrect at 12000 obviously. > > I really don't see what I could be doing wrong, so one would have to > think there is something very wrong in the environment code...? I get > the same results in 2.0, cvs build (week or so before cvs death), and > brand new up to date git builds. I have to confirm what you are reporting, I can't tell you what's wrong but I'll have a closer look. All I can say by now: it's most likely not a user error ;-) Torsten |