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RE: Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice
I wrote something similar that works on most browsers on desktop and mobile devices with voice so you could train by listening to the bullseye call and see if you got the right location. Depending on the platform and your browser you might get a male or female voice. as the default. It helped me to just listen and form the picture in my head. You can set your own bullseye and click the request picture call.
Try: https://sites.google.com/view/tech69/home/bullseye-training
Hope this is helpful for others too.
If you want to write your own your own tool you can look at the html and javascript here:
https://github.com/ohommes/bullseyeCheers!
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Icer on MacOS:
Brave (full functionality and red circle)
Safari (full functionality and red circle)
Chrome (full functionality and red circle)
Firefox (full functionality and red circle).So only on Windows is there and event order issue in the Chromium code. I will try to figure out why and what can be done.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Micro_440th I made the fix for the Windows Edge, Chrome and all other browsers available for you. to deploy. Tested the following
Windows ( fully working)
Edge, Chrome, Firefox ,BraveMacOS (fully working)
Safari, Chrome, Firefox, BraveiPad / iPhone (disabled measurement)
SafariNext new features to work on.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Micro_440th For those who use iPad Mini or regular iPad as your kneeboard like me, you can drag and drop in split screen from your shared drive to the Interactive map. Here is a screenshot running split screen after dropping the file into the map. I will work on a scroll lock for iPad so you can also measure on the iPad (to be done).
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@jc1 This is a misunderstanding of the Doppler chart. It only shows rain like a real doppler radar so that shows only in Inclement weather in BMS. BMS Type 1,2,3,4 as blue-sunny, green-fair, yellow-poor, and red-inclement is just a simulation type; It is a weather type and has no equivalent in the real world.
I kinda show it in the temperature chart (The weather channel look) with the icons, 1= Sunny Icon, 2= Partly CLoudy and 3 = Cloudy and 4 is Cloud with Rain icon. So you have the data but I try to give you only real weather charts.
The Doppler chart is a real rain sensor simulation for picking up Rain radar returns and does a simulated radar sweep (Hence the circular scan visual). If you pull down real GFS data and you see actual Rain Icon in the Temperature chart then check on the Doppler and you see where actual rain is detected.
If many people want to see the BMS type info I can add the charts.
If people want the BMS type color chart, Temp color chart and Pressure color charts I can add those.
Just upvote here and I will add if enough people vote for it.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@suhkoi69
I actually find the Weather Channel Look the quickest and best overlay with the mission data present and not obscure things.
Having said that I will make the chart you select sticky so on reloads it will go to what you prefer.I will add the BMS color type charts, temperature color chart and pressure color chart. The nice wind flow from meteoblue is nice but animation will require continuous screen updates that might be ok on desktops but mobile devices like several years old might not be so good.
Anyway I hope the additional future static charts listed above will help you because the meteoblue I will not have on my early radar and requires a bit more effort. I am more inclined to first provide animations of time sequences of the current weather charts.
when you mention the meteoblue API I assume you want their current weather as overlay? What they provide I think is just access to their charts and maybe I can select what on the globe. For now I studied the GFS and made that available for download and usable when you save it as fmap in your missions.
Also I just checked the API limit of meteoblue and their maximum size is 1000x1000 that is far smaller than what we need as an overlay.
I mean they support 1000000 pixels and the Interactive Maps as 14745600 pixels so nearly 14 of their widgets at their max size.
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RE: BMS on Mac Studio through Crossover
@Stevie
Here is a quick snap from a MacBook Pro 2019 Intel showing FPS 115
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@suhkoi69 To me it is important that we use charts you get as a pilot in real life. The Weather commander view is a weather designer view and not a chart you see anywhere in the world. Once the wind barbs have the cloud coverage you can build the weather picture.
See: https://blog.weathertap.com/article/how-to-read-wind-barbs
Frankly when I look at the Weather Commander picture it makes it feel based on meteo color standards that the weather is worse than it actually is. The picture the weather commander paints feels like it sure is not a good day to fly but it is! In the example you show there is only really bad weather south and far north. The cloud coverage (I agree) is needed so you know what weapons to bring to the fight.
I can add a BMS designer view but that to me just feels fake and unreal as a pilot. BMS “as real as it gets”. Lets stick to that
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@jayb Possible yes but you will exceed the HW support on many devices especially Tablets and macOS desktop on certain browsers. For example even though all the maps are 4096x4096 they are scaled at runtime to 3840 to fit in the Image Scale and Rotate HW accelerators. You won’t be able to drag as you see now or measure smoothly if you go beyond the3840 resolution. It will be one sluggish monster app. So I am not planning zoom in more than we have unless many people have much much newer HW . Also I leave the viewport management to the browser which makes stuff really fast. The 3840x3840 is linked to HW video buffers for HD replay but once you exceed that the feel of the UI is total trash on some platforms and browsers.
For the Terrain: I am planning in the future to have terrain height available and create 2D charts with alt, speed and terrain over the planned route. But this is further into the future.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
The default scroll settings on Windows especially edge are creating large scroll steps.
For edge you should disable MS Scrolling personality to have more linear scroll control versus based on the scroll size ( that makes it very jump). Go to edge://flags and search for scrolling personality and disable that. It will result in nice zooming and scrolling overall.
For chrome you can just change the number of lines per scoll in mouse settings. These issues only play on Windows.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
Deployed mouse wheel zoom feature and increased zoom range. Zoom from 50% to 200% (was 55% to 100%) and wheel zoom is throttled to 20Hz mouse events.
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RE: Install / Run Falcon 4 / BMS on Linux
@PO-HSIUNG Sorry for the late reply. I have not tried TrackIR on crossover.
Also another option on Mac is VMWare or other VM software with windows 11 and I am running with good frame rates there when you DON"T use the generic Microsoft Gfx Driver but the Intel driver by setting:
GFX:
Intel fast driver: mks.dx11.vendorID = “0x8086”and also make sure you are using really the num of CPU cores that you assign; in VMWare that is make sure:
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RE: Weather Commander updates
@suhkoi69 I will have to study this more and correlate the grib2 data with Meteoblue. Currently busy on other stuff so I will file an Issue to keep track of it. If you have the grib2 data for me than I will save these images and do some research as to why the data doesn’t match for cloud base. Other stuff seems ok.
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RE: Weather Commander updates
@suhkoi69 Looks like all is correct and the fog alt of zero means there is none. At least that is what i understand from the format. From the video it looks like all the data is correct including the cloud base. The fact that there is that pattern. That is what is in the grib2 file. You can compile the grib2 executable and generate a csv of the fog layer and see if it matches but from what I see all looks ok.
All looks correct from what I see in the video. Why there is a sharp contrast in the south for the cloud base I don’t know. That is what I think is in the grib2 file. Could be a major cold front coming from the south where the cloud base is very low.
Can you get actual METARs / TAFs for airports in these zones? So we can check what they report.
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RE: Weather Commander updates
@suhkoi69 Can you make your grib2 available so I can test?
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RE: Weather Commander updates
@suhkoi69 Can it be that F4Wx encodes version 8 fmaps incorrectly? That is why I want you to save an fmap generated from Interactive Maps. That will save as version 8 format for the fmap that you can load into WC.
Just click the save button (on the connectivity tab) after you dropped the grib2 file on interactive maps.
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RE: Weather Commander updates
@suhkoi69 Please Generate the fmap from Interactive maps.
Drop the grib2 file and click save button and take the saved fmap from Interactive maps.Also the fact the WC has 3000 flat base is suspicious; I already noticed WC rounding everything for pressures being read in.
I am suspicious of WC at the moment.
Also F4Wx and Interactive Maps do not have to agree on the cloud base in Alt because grib2 only gives pressure levels and you need to determine the cloud base based on PRMSL, Pressure and Surface temp. I use Gas constants, Gravity, mass per mol for calculations here. If F4Wx uses something different we will not agree on the cloud base:
// prmsl, press in Pa function gfsAltFromPRES(prmsl, pres, surf_temp) { // Physics Constants const R = 8.31432; // Gas constant (N x m) / (mol x K) const M = 0.0289644; // kg/mol const g = 9.80665; // m/s^2 const st = 15.0 // Standard Temp C. // Lookup Temperature from standard atmosphere var T = gfsPres2Temp(pres / 100)+273.15; // Kelvin T = T + (15 - surf_temp); // Determine Cloud Base // pres = prmsl e ^(-gMh / RT) // h = ln(P/P0) RT / -gM var alt = (Math.log(pres/prmsl)*R*T)/(-g*M); alt *= 3.28084; // Make ft return alt; }
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RE: Weather Commander updates
@suhkoi69 Can you make the grib2 available? I am starting to suspect WC is broken.
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RE: Weather Commander updates
@suhkoi69 Did you download the same grib2 file then drop the grib2 file on Interactive Maps and save to .fmap and then open in WC.
What do you get in that case?WC does some interesting stuff to float pressure values; It rounds everything to the nearest mb which is a massive pressure adjustment. Can be 2 inches Sea Level rise or fall. from the pressure.
Anyway can you try the grib2 file you have and drop on the Interactive Maps and save as .fmap and the load in WC? What do you get?
Interactive Map (maps.falcon-bms.com) understands the grib2 encoding.