Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather scenarios - add ICAO standard

[Mihajlo T. <tom...@gm...>]

This reminded of the discussion we had whether or not CAVOK should have
clear skies,and Thorsten convinced me that this is statistically wrong,so I
see Alan's idea as a good alternative. Would it be possible to have a
scenario where we have clear skies (or at least far less clouds than in
fair weather),provided that the issue with menu filling up is resolved,and
more scenarios can be added? Clear weather doesn't have to apply to entire
scenario,but for only one part . So, maybe add a little variability. By
variability I mean that clear weather for the Balkans in reality ( and even
down to Rhodes) can stretch from a few dozen kilometers to a few hundred (I
actually measured with Google Earth that it can stretch up to 500 km or
so). . Of course in reality this can be less or even more depending on the
region. This is just an example.  Someone could say that I should just set
up a METAR string with a clear sky,but this is not realistic and is not a
scenario (pressure,temperature and visibility,height of haze layer etc.
don't change). Your opinions on this would be appreciated.
Regards
Mihajlo

2018-04-19 15:46 GMT+02:00 James Turner <ja...@fl...>:

>
>
> On 19 Apr 2018, at 15:04, Thorsten Renk <tho...@sc...>
> wrote:
>
> I have a list of my 25 candidates, I'm seeing four or five at a time, so I
> need to scroll to get to what I'm looking for, and it's not intuitively
> clear to me where in the list I want to scroll because the list isn't
> sorted alphabetically or by any other topic I could figure out  - so I
> randomly pick a direction to scroll and try to recognize the thumbnail (and
> read name if I find a thumbnail candidate - i.e. when I'm looking for a
> helicopter, I scan for helicopter images and then read what the name of the
> beast is I'm looking at) - which is bad if the aircraft doesn't have one.
>
> If I'd see more aircraft on-screen, I'd have to scroll less (basically my
> previous suggestion was to hide all description text in the list and only
> present thumbnail / name to fit more aircraft on screen - and only show
> description once the aircraft is selected).
>
> If the list would be ordered alphabetically (or by any other criterion),
> I'd also know better where to scroll to.
>
>
> I typically see 6-8 aircraft per screen and they nearly all have a useful
> thumbnail which really helps I agree. The aircraft I have from manual
> downloads with a rather useless ‘logo’ thumbnail are definitely more
> awkward to deal with. This definitely does highlight to me the important of
> picking good thumbnails for aircraft since as you observed, it’s the best
> visual cue.
>
> For the delegate, I’m constrained by the thumbnail size - shrinking the
> image won’t look good, but I don’t want to word-wrap the titles because
> mostly that makes them hard to read. (Due to lots of hyphens, model numbers
> and similar)  So the minimum height is the thumbnail height + the margins
> between items, which is about what we have now. I’ll have a think if there
> is any further trimming possible, though.
>
> About the sorting, the list is supposed to be sorted alphabetically, but
> it’s not working at the moment, so we’re getting the scan order, which is
> ‘partially alphabetical’ and hence I didn’t notice (the parse order for
> both the official hangar and on-disk dirs in the directory listing order,
> which tends to be alphabetical, but the whole list is not being re-sorted
> as it should, that’s a bug to fix.
>
> Kind regards,
> James
>
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