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Status: | Status: May. 2010 | ||
The current weather system of Flightgear can be called global when Flightgear runs offline: Any menu weather setting, be it windspeed, visibility, precipitation or cloud coverage, affects the weather everywhere. It is not possible to fly to a region where the cloud cover is different, or see precipitation from an aircraft flying in sunshine, or to observe a change in atmospheric pressure by flying somewhere else. | The current weather system of Flightgear can be called global when Flightgear runs offline: Any menu weather setting, be it windspeed, visibility, precipitation or cloud coverage, affects the weather everywhere. It is not possible to fly to a region where the cloud cover is different, or see precipitation from an aircraft flying in sunshine, or to observe a change in atmospheric pressure by flying somewhere else. | ||
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== Current development status == | == Current development status == | ||
The current version 0.6 supports placement of effect volumes for visibility, rain, snow and thermal lift, as well as interpolation of visibility, pressure, temperature and dewpoint between weather stations. It has a variety of 40x40 km weather tiles with layered and non-layered clouds and weather effects, external models of precipitation and (with a CVS patch) also support for gliders, i.e. it creates thermals below convective clouds. As an example, the picture shows Nimbostratus clouds with precipitation seen from outside. | The current version 0.6 supports placement of effect volumes for visibility, rain, snow and thermal lift, as well as interpolation of visibility, pressure, temperature and dewpoint between weather stations. It has a variety of 40x40 km weather tiles with layered and non-layered clouds and weather effects, external models of precipitation and (with a CVS patch) also support for gliders, i.e. it creates thermals below convective clouds. Automatic weather tile reloading for long-range flights is implemented, both in a simple 'repeat-tile' function and a rudimentary set of tile selection rules to simulate the long-range change of real weather. As an example, the picture shows Nimbostratus clouds with precipitation seen from outside. | ||
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