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Weather detection

Vitus

Vitus

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Hi there,

is there an option to get a roughly idea about the weather for a gauge?

What I intend to do is to decrease the range of a radio beacon signal in overcasting conditions and especially when flying through a thunderstorm. I know about the "AMBIENT IN CLOUD" Variable, which will be a quick-and-dirty solution, but if there is another, more accurate way, I would be glad to hear about it.

Regards
Vitus
 
Hi Vitus-

weather is the one area where FS could have been improved in terms of the SDK - SimConnect provides cloud density but NOT cloud precipitation, so you can't accurately receive information that would correspond to what real-world instruments do.

If you want to approximate, though, SimConnect does provide several weather-related structure units which might come "close".
 
Thanks for the info. Gee! I thought I don't need to deal with simConnect...

All the best!
Vitus
 
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