F4Wx – Real Weather Converter
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Hi, Ahmed
Just one word : Incredible !!! Thanks a lot
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Simply impressive!!!
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Amazing!!! I tested the app yesterday… Awesome on the UI very straight forward and easy. but just that didn’t test the part of falcon.
But I’m stupid and have a question here. Since u r spoiling us here… :lol:
The files are saved inside the app folder logically, so we have to move them somewhere so to be recognized and used by falcon? or the app does it automatically?Thanx great work…
Respect.
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Arty, you can choose the folder where you save them (that should be the WeatherMapsUpdates inside the campaign folder of the theater in question if you are saving a sequence), but at the moment the default folder when you click save is not preset to that one, so you have to navigate to it manually. It is one of the things I skipped for the beta release, but it will happen, but for the final version I will probably make it default to the theater’s folder automatically.
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Just took it for a spin with wip Ikaros and it’s amazing… set yesterday weather and it was like real.
thnx m8.
first file goes to save folder and all to weather folder inside save folder… all done by instinct no rtfm.
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I’m confusing myself with something:
When selecting GFS, which time do you want to choose…?
00:00
06:00
12:00
18:00
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whichever u want. first file in the GFS list is the latest IIRC. so it takes from that time and after it.
The weather model will have forecast for days to come.
The saved sequence files have the format of xyyzz.fmap
x=day 1to17 day one is the day you selected from GFS.
yy=hour
zz=minutesSo you want the weather for tomorrow at 20:00 and downloaded 7/12/2016 GFS file.
if you want one only and let falcon do the job of weather thus having only one starting point you just copy paste the file to save folder and load it.
If u want the sequence copy the first u want to save and all the rest to the weather folder inside save folder.
Now if u want the weather from day 3 and forward then place the time marker from F4Wx to the starting time point you want and select Save from Current position.
but this will have you to wait for day 3 as you fly to kick in.
So if u want days 3 weather in your flight you must rename those files from 3xxxx.fmap to 1xxxx.fmap also time is important if your flight is at 0800 and the weather starts at 1000 then you must fly for 2 hours. Not 100% sure here maybe falcon loads from the initial file and projects that weather until 1000 and then play along with the weather.This would be a nice feature ahmed. Like the point i have the time marker I want it to be same as initial time.
So example: at the marker I’m at day 4 7:00 and my initial time set to 01 09:00 select save from current position and a new tickmark save as day one. It will start saving from 10900.fmap and forward according to the forecast to generate time in minutes.I would like to know more about the sync with real timezone.
My time zone is GMT+1 the weather I downloaded is GMT+9
I fly at Korea theater. This means it has GMT+9? of Falcon GMT is irrelevant and only relevance is between my real local time and the downloaded real time?
So should I select sync in case at my time 20:00 (GMT+1) I want to fly the Korea weather at 20:00 (GMT+9) or not? And it syncs which clock Falcon clock or my computer - system clock? -
This would be a nice feature ahmed. Like the point i have the time marker I want it to be same as initial time.
So example: at the marker I’m at day 4 7:00 and my initial time set to 01 09:00 select save from current position and a new tickmark save as day one. It will start saving from 10900.fmap and forward according to the forecast to generate time in minutes.Now that you say it I think that was the original idea behind that option (as you can always move forward the start time if you want to generate weather for later on in the campaign, but not the inverse), but somewhere around the coding I misunderstood my own ideas I’ll make a note for next build.
I would like to know more about the sync with real timezone.
My time zone is GMT+1 the weather I downloaded is GMT+9
I fly at Korea theater. This means it has GMT+9? of Falcon GMT is irrelevant and only relevance is between my real local time and the downloaded real time?
So should I select sync in case at my time 20:00 (GMT+1) I want to fly the Korea weather at 20:00 (GMT+9) or not? And it syncs which clock Falcon clock or my computer - system clock?Nope, your timezone is irrelevant. The syncing option was a very requested option in Grb2Fmap. The weather you download from GFS is GMT. However, the weather in KTO is GMT+9. The problem was that, in Grb2Fmap, unless you did it manually that was quite user-unfriendly, you could very well be flying in Korea at night at +20 (real day time weather) degrees, and during the day at +10 degrees (real night time weather), as the time was not “synced” between the real weather and your Falcon weather.
What the syncing option does is make sure that when your time in BMS KTO is 10:00 local, the weather depicted is from 10:00 local Korea in real-life. You can see that if you read the status text below the preview image. This is why, when you select this option, you normally cannot select the first hours of the preview map, as they are “discarded” in order to sync the times between RW and BMS. This is, at the moment, only available for download weather (not saved files).
BTW, if you only want to generate weather for 3 days there is no need to download the whole 15-day GFS forecast. You can either select an end-time on the download dialog, or you can hold ESC while downloading once you have enough files.
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I’m confusing myself with something:
When selecting GFS, which time do you want to choose…?
00:00
06:00
12:00
18:00
?As Arty said, normally you would select the first option, that is already highlighted by default. However, that may fail sometimes (nothing to do with the program, but with the way NOAA publishes the GFS data – see README.TXT), or you may want to choose a date in the past for whatever reason. So the option is there for you.
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first file goes to save folder and all to weather folder inside save folder… all done by instinct no rtfm.
Dear Arty (and Ahmed, of course),
just a clarification for that tremendous noob I am: the ‘first file’ you’re talking of is that one ‘*.fmap’ created after having saved the data? And those ‘all’ are perhaps saved in the ‘data’ folder’, so you have to put them in the weather folder after extracting them from the ‘data’ folder?
My apologies in advance for my English, only hope I made myself and my questions understandable the same.
With best regards,
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Any chance of a 64 bit version for those of us with memory to spare and incentive to abuse our hardware?
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Blu3wolf
Works ok on 64bit.@Jackal you select where to save the file or files according to your selection. So I would select to save them directly to falcon folders.
If u create one file only save it in
C:\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1\Data\Campaign\Saveif u create a sequence
select to save here: C:\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1\Data\Campaign\Save\WeatherMapsUpdatesand then move the first file here:
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Thanks Ahmed, looking great!
Uwe
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Thanks. Great job.
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EDIT: Never mind, it looks like your program requires the 32bit version. Works fine now.
I just tried running the program and receive a message about a missing MSVCP140.dll file.
I tried installing VCRUN2015 (64 bit version), but it tells me it’s already installed on my system.
Any ideas?
Thanks Uwe
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He meant WOW64 allows any 32 bit program to be run in 64 bit windows. He was requesting a version that takes advantage of 64 bit
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Any chance of a 64 bit version for those of us with memory to spare and incentive to abuse our hardware?
There is a chance, but to be honest the only time I have run out of memory was by generating 1 min interval fmaps for POH (128 segments) theater for 16 days. The practical use of doing this, aside from testing the program, is nil.
For a more normal case: 16 day weather at 1 fmap each hour (default) in POH theater uses 168MB, and will use around 100mb of hard-drive space once saved.
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…and those 100mb make for a perfect marriage between Falcon and weather conditions!
Ahmed, no words to express our gratitude!
A BIG Thank you, mate!