V2.26 Third Public Release
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Added support for using "real world" aviation weather reports
by adding a feature to read and interpret METAR reports. This
includes a limited translation of TAFs as well. METAR files can
be either plain text, or compressed with GZIP - both are
automatically read by BGLMET.
Added a "cloud type" setting for cloud layers one and two. This
uses the same pre-sets that the flight sim weather menus use
for setting cloud types.
Added support for "Dew Point temperature". Flight sim has a
spot in memory for Dew Point, but does not have a menu (I can
find at least) for setting it. I have added it to BGLMET just
in case it does something. If it does nothing, then it is no
real loss either.
Added online help/instructions for the program.
Changed the format of the saved file to include some extra
information for the METARS as well as data for the cloud types.
BGLMET 2+ will read files from BGLMET 1+, but saving is not
backward compatible.
Added an option to automatically calculate temperature at altitude
based on the surface temperature, and standard rates of temperature
change with altitude.
Included are two new example files. IAD2SFO.MET uses real world
weather to define 17 different weather areas between Washington
Dulles and San Francisco international airports. Sadly, the
METAR file I used indicated all but three of those 17 areas had
clear skies that day, so you won't see much in this example
(temperature, pressure, and winds do change). I also included
the BGLINS file for this flight if you also use this program.
The second example (SFO2SYD.MET) continues this flight on to
Sydney Australia, via Hawaii, Fiji, and Noumea. Again I have
included the INS file if you wish to recreate this flight (try
and do it in 14hr35min). There is a lot more to see
weather-wise in this file.
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V1.25 Second public release
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Added a function which reads the world.vis file and from that
imports airport locations from the airport menus of flight sim.
These can then be used to set the locations of weather areas.
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V1.17 First release
