From: Alex P. <al...@fa...> - 2001-05-05 05:17:14
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> METAR based weather is something I'd love to see developed. > Christian's weather database has some fancy interpolating code, but it > takes 'forever' to initialize at startup ... on the order of > minutes... which is a lot. I'd be in favor of a less fancy scheme > that was less CPU intensive ... perhaps pick the closest station and > migrate the current values towards that at a slow enough rate that it > appears natural. I've been thinking it might be worth moving the weather decision making code into a separate program which updates a collection of properties that describe the desired weather conditions. This has the advantage when several people are flying in the same area, namely that the weather software can update all the copies of fgfs to be identical. |