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== General description == | == General description == | ||
The wind aloft data is brought to you by the nice people of Jeppesen(R). Under http://www.jeppesen.com/weather a Text Weather service is provided free of charge. We use this service to fetch the aloft | The wind aloft data is brought to you by the nice people of Jeppesen(R). Under http://www.jeppesen.com/weather a Text Weather service is provided free of charge. We use this service to fetch the aloft forecast and use these data as input for FlightGear. | ||
When enabling the <tt>--real-weather-fetch</tt> option, FlightGear searches for the nearest airport to your present position that has a METAR service. If it finds one, it propagates the environmental settings and the station id of the airport the METAR was fetched for. A tiny add-on sends this station-id to a listening daemon program called aloftd. | When enabling the <tt>--real-weather-fetch</tt> option, FlightGear searches for the nearest airport to your present position that has a METAR service. If it finds one, it propagates the environmental settings and the station id of the airport the METAR was fetched for. A tiny add-on sends this station-id to a listening daemon program called aloftd. | ||