F4Wx – Real Weather Converter
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@dcraig1 thanks oh I understand… I probably made a mistake when I saved without knowing it , my bad!
the BMS time in F4WX app may be confusing …according to my last check, all works fineI have understood my mistake : if by misfortune, you check “save sequence”, automaticcally, the BMS time will always appear the day1: 9:00 under the map even if you slide the time ruler…to avoid this stupid error, it would be better to replace BMS time by local time) and current time by BMS time (zulu time)
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Hi all,
I haven’t had any time to dedicate to F4Wx or even monitoring this thread lately and it will take probably a few months until I have, so thanks to those helping people resolve their questions and issues lately.
Just a quick bit of information: F4Wx works with BMS 4.36 without the need for any updates. There is only one new feature of the weather engine introduced in 4.36 that F4Wx doesn’t take advantage of, yet.
As stated by some, since 4.35 the “sync with real timezone” option shouldn’t be used and I’ll remove it on the next update.
Due to my lack of time to dedicate to this, it is my idea to release the source code and host a repository for F4Wx on github, as my contribution to the community and so that whoever wants to contribute can do it through forks and pull requests. I just want to refactor some of the ugly code from many years ago before I do this. But I hope to do that at some point this year.
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@Ahmed Thanks for your contribution!
I did realize an issue with view distance in sunny weather where the visibility was very poor given the clear sky…
Maybe something to check later on (might also be a faulty data input).Cheers
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@MaxWaldorf This probably has to do with what I mention is not implemented yet and BMS is just filling for that. In any case I’d have to see the result. Hazy skies while still being clear of clouds are a thing irl.
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@Ahmed Agreed with hazy clear skies! @MaxWaldorf Flight instructor hat on, this weather phenomenon is usually more often by the visibility restriction called mist (coded BR, short for French “brume” in the international METAR system). Laypersons often call drizzle “misting” but it is not the same thing. Usually mist is a 3-5sm mile visibility range, but technically it can go down to 1km.
One other thing is that real life aviation systems max out at 10sm visibility, where actual visibility can be and usually is much further than that.
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@Ahmed said in F4Wx – Real Weather Converter:
@MaxWaldorf This probably has to do with what I mention is not implemented yet and BMS is just filling for that. In any case I’d have to see the result. Hazy skies while still being clear of clouds are a thing irl.
No it’s not
The only thing in 4.36 not implemented in F4Wx is fog altitude
In this case this is a visibility issue so I would call that a bug
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Hi, I’m having an issue downloading weather: the box where choose download time it’s completely empty. My ver it’s 1.05….
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@Ahmed
HI, just to report to You that, after few days F4Wx it’s unusable. After choosing “download weather, the window with files to pick it’s completely empty. Someone else experiencing same? -
@Gancio Just tried it and works as expected
- Choose theater
2.Download Weather - New window pops up, choose a line and download starts, dont take the first or second line
- Choose theater
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@Toner
Many thanks for reply Toner, the problem is that the box, from where usually I choose the file it’s completely empty. This happen from a couple of days. I’m using F4Wx since it’s out.
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@Ahmed
Hi Ahmed, after a little investigation involving a friend, I tried to download and install F4Wx on a laptop, which I don’t use for the simulator. On this computer everything works, I download the gfs files and the window is full of files to choose from. . Has anything changed since the first days of August? In those days F4Wx worked perfectly, I’ve been out for holidays and now no longer on the computer I use for the simulator. Thank you -
I see no issue on my system.
If you are still having this issue, I suggest that you make sure that you are not blocking F4Wx on your firewall or something.
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@Ahmed
Many thanks Hamed for Your reply. I’m not at home at the moment, I will check Thursday. I let You know.
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@Ahmed
thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately the problem is not there, (firewall or antivirus) could it be that using windows 7 something happened recently that no longer supports the download processes? I use F4Wx on the laptop running W10 and it works perfectly. -
@Gancio why dont upgrade to win 10
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@Toner
Hi toner, thanks for your reply. No I can’t. I play BMS within a full scale cockpit that it was built through many years. Unfortunately some hardware/software can’t be updated “ free of charge” to last most “fast” OS.
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@Gancio OK then you can only try the workaround with win 7 and save the maps on a stick and copy to your BMS folder
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@Ahmed
The new fog altitude feature, added with version 4.6, interacts with the visibility maps: as currently the fog altitudes are zero at each generated FMAP; this involves that the visibility criteria are never applied…
from what I understand, it is difficult to get this dataif is there no possibility to extract fog altitude from real-world GRIB data, couldn’t we to apply a criteria scaled according to visibility data ?
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@suhkoi69 said in F4Wx – Real Weather Converter:
@Ahmed
The new fog altitude feature, added with version 4.6, interacts with the visibility maps: as currently the fog altitudes are zero at each generated FMAP; this involves that the visibility criteria are never applied…
from what I understand, it is difficult to get this dataif is there no possibility to extract fog altitude from real-world GRIB data, couldn’t we to apply a criteria scaled according to visibility data ?
Indeed, this is currently not being populated by F4Wx, as it needs to be updated to make avail of this new BMS feature. The issue I have seen, is that GRIB files from NOAA don’t contain enough data from NOAA to estimate these fog layers.
I have limited time, so I haven’t been able to do much research on how to estimate it from existing data. If anyone has any suggestions or even a basic ROT that can be used, I’d be more than happy to update F4Wx to use that.
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Hi everyone. I am a newcomer of Falcon BMS. Can someone send me a copy of F4Wx? I can’t open either of the download link as both of them are blocked. Many thanks.