F4Wx – Real Weather Converter
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I’m about to download this tool but I’m in an interesting situation, I have no internet hookup to my PC but I can download to my tablet when I get wifi in town and move anything to my computer.
Can I make this took work without internet on the PC falcon is installed on? Can I download a weather file and put it on my computer and still fly through a day or two of forecasts?
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I’m about to download this tool but I’m in an interesting situation, I have no internet hookup to my PC but I can download to my tablet when I get wifi in town and move anything to my computer.
Can I make this took work without internet on the PC falcon is installed on? Can I download a weather file and put it on my computer and still fly through a day or two of forecasts?
Yes you can, I do use it like this myself. Just download the files and copy them to your Falcon PC
Cheers Obi1
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Awesome, thanks for the quick reply, I’m still sitting in the gas station parking lot bumming internet!
Where can I find those files?
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I know I’m just missing something simple but I cant figure out what weather files to download onto my tablet to bring to my computer. Ive found NAOO GFS webpage but theres a lot of options…
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Hi,
The files you need are pretty specific. Ideally you would need to download them with F4Wx and save them locally. Then transfer them to your BMS computer running F4Wx too. But if you are on a tablet, I guess this is not an option?
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Its saying my tablet wont open .exe files. My smart device told me Adobe app would open it, but…. I’m working on figuring out how to that works.
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I brought my computer out of the woods and hooked it to the internet, I got F4Wx working in the nordic theater I believe, I havent flown yet but everything else works.
The strange thing is that F4Wx seemed to download the same GFS files I downloaded before….
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I brought my computer out of the woods and hooked it to the internet, I got F4Wx working in the nordic theater I believe, I havent flown yet but everything else works.
The strange thing is that F4Wx seemed to download the same GFS files I downloaded before….
Yes, the filenames will probably be the same (as they are based on date only), but the contents of those files will probably be different (because of different data and levels selected)
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F4WX 1.03 created f.maps comp. for 4.35?
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F4WX 1.03 created f.maps comp. for 4.35?
It did at least for me. Do not tick the checkbox “Sync With Real Timezone” since 4.35 uses zulu time and not local time.
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Wise hint that yours, Razor.
Thanks a lot, I’ll keep it well in mind.
With best regards.
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Should fmaps be named for local time or zulu time? I.e. rolling fire starts at 0100 Zulu which is 1000 local. After manually loading the initial map, the game will load the next one in about an hour. Should the first file I want auto-loaded be 10200 or 11100?
And before I get a RTFM - section 7.5.1 of the tech manual says “the campaign engine will load the map when the time matches the file name.” with no clarification of zulu vs local.
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F4WX 1.03 created f.maps comp. for 4.35?
Yes, it is fully compatible with 4.35!
EDIT: First post updated
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Should fmaps be named for local time or zulu time? I.e. rolling fire starts at 0100 Zulu which is 1000 local. After manually loading the initial map, the game will load the next one in about an hour. Should the first file I want auto-loaded be 10200 or 11100?
And before I get a RTFM - section 7.5.1 of the tech manual says “the campaign engine will load the map when the time matches the file name.” with no clarification of zulu vs local.
I haven’t been able to try 4.35 yet, can anyone get him an answer on that? Otherwise give me a few days to check it myself
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Should fmaps be named for local time or zulu time? I.e. rolling fire starts at 0100 Zulu which is 1000 local. After manually loading the initial map, the game will load the next one in about an hour. Should the first file I want auto-loaded be 10200 or 11100?
And before I get a RTFM - section 7.5.1 of the tech manual says “the campaign engine will load the map when the time matches the file name.” with no clarification of zulu vs local.
Zulu
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Awesome thank you. Follow up unrelated question, is there a way to get grib data from other months? While I’m all for the new anti-ice additions, I’d like to set some warmer weather to fly in rather than the sub-freezing temps currently in the KTO.
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Awesome thank you. Follow up unrelated question, is there a way to get grib data from other months? While I’m all for the new anti-ice additions, I’d like to set some warmer weather to fly in rather than the sub-freezing temps currently in the KTO.
Don’t know, but your jet will perform better in cold weather and it is no that big of a deal.
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To Ahmed and/or Razor:
any suggestions about the most proper folder to have the data folder installed to?
I tried to find some instrucions out, but there aren’t any, as seems.Thanks in advance.
Keep yourselves always safe and Merry Christmas to you (and your beloved ones too)!
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I have a slight offset on the weather data for EMF theater to the northwest.
The only way to crosscheck this is with the temperature. Also when i save the .fmap from F4wx and i try to load it again from the application i have the ‘‘GRIB data is from another geographical location’’ error.
BMS 4.35 F4Wx 1.03 Build 55
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Hello,
I just tired and indeeed the coordinates for EMF in the F4Wx preset don’t seem to be the best (they were passed by some tester iirc before theater’s release). I’ve made note of better ones and I’ll try to get the presets updated soon. Regarding the warning about the different geograpical location…. are trying to load saved weather or saved fmaps??? The load from file option is to load saved weather data (through the hidden control+shift+s feature for example) to use local GRIB files.