Wettergerät v1.7.0

    A new version of the good ol' Wettergerät has been released. For those that do not (yet) know what the Wettergerät is about:

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    The Aerofly Wettergerät will copy the following METAR weather information from remote sources to your configuration file while Aerofly FS 2/4 is not running:

    • Time and day
    • Wind & turbulences
    • Thermal activity
    • Clouds (height & density)

    The Aerofly Wettergerät is capable of setting weather values which you cannot access in Aerofly FS 2/4. This is tested and is done deliberately.

    It now does not require you to get an API key, as it now uses the official free weather API of the U.S. Aviation Weather Service (a splendid service, as it also has tons of API data on airports, navigational aids and more useful stuff).

    This not only makes setting up the Wettergerät completely painless, but also allows for getting historical weather. Or in the words of the Aviation Weather Service:

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    The weather database currently allows access to the previous 15 days of data.

    Yes, you heard correctly: You can get weather data for every hour and minute in the last 15 days! So in case you missed your favourite hurricane, you are now able to get the data from the Wettergerät.

    Bear in mind that this is a free and possibly rate-limited API service, but as far as I tried I was not able to hit the rate-limit.

    As usual any feedback is welcome, and…

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    This tool is NOT affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by IPACS GbR. As stated in the LICENSE.txt, this tool comes with no warranty and might damage your files.

    …or might make your flying experience much more interesting. ;)

    There is a new version of the Wettergerät available at https://github.com/fboes/aerofly-…ases/tag/v1.7.4 which not only improves the date handling and interaction with the date/time already present in the main.mcf, but also hopefully fixes a remaining issue with the fetching of API data.

    And yet again there is a new version 1.7.5 of the Wettergerät. As it turned out the latest weather in Florida required some fixes to the METAR parser, to make it more robust encountering unusual numbers of cloud levels.

    The Wettergerät is now able to guesstimate the local time for the aircraft position by using Nautical Time. Even though this is most often not entirely correct, it gives you a good understanding about the time of day you aircraft will start at.

    As the idea of working with historical weather was quite new for the Wettergerät, some quality-of-live fixes have been added to make working with date & time less bothersome.

    Hopefully this concludes the streak of new versions, and the Wettergerät can have another 2 year period of hiatus before requiring new updates. ;)

    Hi Frank! I would like to add weather selection to the IGC Recorder, the idea is that the user can select the same configuration it has in AFS4, with a similar user interfase. How can I convert this sliders to values? Condor add some weather data to the IGC recording and I am trying to add the most I can. Also I will try to connect AFS4 to XCSoar from the IGC Recorder, and some of this data will be useful. Thank you!

    Best regards, Juan

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    Hi Frank! I would like to add weather selection to the IGC Recorder, the idea is that the user can select the same configuration it has in AFS4, with a similar user interfase. How can I convert this sliders to values? Condor add some weather data to the IGC recording and I am trying to add the most I can. Also I will try to connect AFS4 to XCSoar from the IGC Recorder, and some of this data will be useful. Thank you!

    Do you want to import the weather from Aerofly FS4? The Wettergerät / Missionsgerät import this from the main.mcf. Here is the parser for this task:

    aerofly-missions/src/Aerofly/MainMcf.ts at main · fboes/aerofly-missions
    The Aerofly Missionsgerät converts simulator flight plan files for Aerofly FS 4 (main.mcf and tmc), Microsoft Flight Simulator (pln), X-Plane (fms), GeoFS (…
    github.com

    (Reading the weather settings from the running simulation obviously requires the DLL.)

    Otherwise if you want to write the weather to Aerofly FS 4 the Wettergerät / Missionsgerät write to the main.mcd / custom_missions.tmc.

    aerofly-missions/src/Aerofly/MissionConditions.ts at main · fboes/aerofly-missions
    The Aerofly Missionsgerät converts simulator flight plan files for Aerofly FS 4 (main.mcf and tmc), Microsoft Flight Simulator (pln), X-Plane (fms), GeoFS (…
    github.com
    aerofly-wettergeraet/src/WettergeraetLib/AeroflyConfigFile.cpp at main · fboes/aerofly-wettergeraet
    ✈️ Copy METAR weather information into Aerofly FS2 and Aerofly FS 4 - fboes/aerofly-wettergeraet
    github.com

    (This will probably not be available via DLL.)

    If I did not grasp your plan yet let me know, I am glad to help.

    Hi Frank, thank you very much, both methods are very useful. Sorry if I didn't explained it well, but I was thinking to reproduce the AFS4 controls adjustments on the IGC Recorder, so the user could configure them directly in the app. I know it may sound a little silly, but thinking on how we select the weather in AFS4, it is not so crazy to adjust it in a similar way in the IGC Rercorder.

    So, I was asking if you know what are the minimum an maximum values of each setting, if they are linear or have some curve, and any related advide you could give me, since you have worked a lot in this AFS4 area.

    Another idea I had, was importing the weather Aerofly Wettergerat will output, but it seemed to me a bigger path (does it need a second exported file, one for AFS4 and one for IGC REcorded)? So, just reproducing the weather that it is displayed in the sim sounds a little simpler.

    Will appreciate any further information, thank you!

    Best regards, Juan

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    So, I was asking if you know what are the minimum an maximum values of each setting, if they are linear or have some curve, and any related advide you could give me, since you have worked a lot in this AFS4 area.

    Ah, I get it. Maybe this is helpful to you:

    aerofly-wettergeraet/docs/aerofly-config.md at main · fboes/aerofly-wettergeraet
    ✈️ Copy METAR weather information into Aerofly FS2 and Aerofly FS 4 - fboes/aerofly-wettergeraet
    github.com