Hi Pete,
and thanks for the wonderful explenation, this has been bugging me as well for quite some time, and has elevated my blood pressure surely for good.
It's been some time since your post, so I am not sure if you get this, but I'll try...
I don't know how the wind smoothing option of your FSUIPC works, but with ASE I see that it has to set global weather (as you say above), in order to
smooth the winds. I can say the wind changes are about 1 deg. pr. second, so there are no sudden wind shifts for the aircraft. Though, I don't really
like it when all the weather around me suddenly changes totally for every new reporting station I pass...
Should it not be possible to have a program like ASE (or FSUIPC) recognizing sudden wind shifts, and distribute the change over say 1 minute's time?
The global weather "solution" seems like giving up one thing to get another, and it is impossible to get both..
Winds shifts can occur quite more frequently than one minute, but I guess it would be sort of an "average" (the distribution), which
should be somewhat the correct value..?
I really have now idea, I am no programmer... Just needed to "air" my thoughts :)
How does your FSUIPC do it? And where can I find a page to tell me other benefits of your program? I felt buing it just for the wind
smoothing option was overdoing it maybe.. :)
Actually, right now these days I am corresponding with microsoft about the problem, and they seem to have no idea at all about this
problem...(which I find really wierd). Actually the tried to call me today, but I was at dinner... So maybe I'll hear from them tomorrow..
Will be quite interesting to hear what they have to say... :)
Anyway.. Merry christmas :)
Greetings from Norway
Geir - ATPL student