Ralf T

Thank you for your help, Pete! I'll try this out. If it doesn't work, I'll go the way the others go and adapt my wind generating routines to generate clockwise directions. Best regards Ralf

So far I had no problems with the performance using one wind layer in GLOB and adjusting it to the 4 wind layers, my program generates. When crossing the border between 2 Layers I made changes to the GLOB setting every 2 seconds. (This was my initial method dealing with the winds in FS2k and FS2k2, mach the same way, as you did) The only problem with this is now, that when I approach an airport, FS chooses the momentary wind direction at my present altitude for the selection of the runway, since this is the only value set in FS (-> only one wind layer). So what I would need is to give the surface wind independently to FS. With the AWI this was possible in FS2k2, but now this does not work anymore, even if I use the AWI. Do you think, it might be possible to inject the surface wind value, that FS uses to determin the active runway and the ATIS independently from the actual weather settings? That would allow me to avoid the problem with multiple wind layers. regards Ralf

So, I thought a bit about a workaround for the problem: If I use only 1 wind layer, in which I generate the conditions at the altitude, in which the plane is flying, I could get around this problem (the same way, as you did in former versions of FSUIPC) The only problem seems to be, that there is at present no way, to give the "real" surface wind information for ATIS and runway selection to FS, as ist was possible in FS2k2 and the AWI with the adventure values. Do you think, there is a way to give the surface winds to FS, independent of the settings in the 1. Wind Layer in GLOB or in ICAO? (maybe with sth. similar like the adventure variable in former versions?) regards Ralf

Hello Pete, Thank you for your quick answers and sorry for not checking the older entries in the forum. It seems, that I have to ajust the direction of my tradewinds to the rules of Microsoft :wink:; not really surprising... So, I'll try the way the others go, entering intermediate layers. Thank you again for the help and for your great work. Without the possibilities that FSUIPC opens to us, my FS hobby would be half that fun! Best regards Ralf

Dear Pete, first, let me say thank you for your great FSUIPC Module. It accompanies my flightsimming hobby now since nearly 5 years. In this time I developed a weather generating program for my own personal use. But now I have a little problem, maybe you can help me. I‘m using your new weather interface, and when I insert new wind layers, sometimes sth. odd is happening: If you enter the following wind layers, i.e. in WeatherSet2 for an ICAO Station (i.e. EDDF) 10000ft, 10kt, Direction 90 20000ft, 10kt, Direction 80 you get the result 10000ft, 10kt, Direction 90 20000ft, 10kt, Direction 100 It seems, that when the wind direction is turning to the left with increasing layers, FS is adding the difference, instead of sustracting it. This happens only with ICAO Stations. With GLOB it is working right. If you set GLOB only, the values, that are transferred to the (not set) ICAO Stations differ in the same way as described above from the GLOB setting. Is there something you can do about this in your FSUIPC Module, to correct this? Best regards Ralf