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 This HOWTO describes how to setup live setting of wind aloft. This is the wind speed, direction and temperature for different altitudes. FlightGear's feature of setting current weather by using the --enable-real-weather-fetch uses METAR which only reports ground weather.
-The aloft feature currently only works for the CVS version of FlightGear since you have to apply a tiny patch to the sourcecode (just a single line). It only works if you have '''bash''', '''awk''', '''wget''' and '''netcat''' on your machine. This is usually the case if you are running linux and should be no sweat for OS/X but might require some setup if you have some less feature rich operating system.
+The aloft feature currently only works if you have a source distribution of FlightGear or the CVS version since you have to apply a tiny patch to the sourcecode (just a single line). It only works if you have '''bash''', '''awk''', '''wget''' and '''netcat''' on your machine. This is usually the case if you are running linux and should be no sweat for OS/X but might require some setup if you have some less feature rich operating system.
 == General description ==