[bvipilots] Re: Metar issues was Re: Re: never sneeze when you fly with Michelle
- From: Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:41:03 -0400
jMitchell,
This has happened to me. Seems as if it has some odd thing happen
with the key presses on atc. The ATC window has to be open when the
keypresses happen and sometimes, those keypresses don't seem to work.
Noel
On 9/9/13, Mitchel Snel <brailletijger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> sorry problem with my braille display!
> if I ask michell for the weather with the get local weather command I
> get a announcement when there is no local weather but sometimes I get
> no responds.
> I assume that there is local weather then but I do not get the local
> weather?
> greetings, Mitchel
>
> 2013/9/9, Mitchel Snel <brailletijger@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> dear Robert,
>> sorry that I move into this topic but if I ask michel
>>
>> 2013/9/9, Robert Cezar <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> The METAR data comes from the United States NOAA service located here:
>>>
>>> http://aviationweather.gov/
>>>
>>> I would suggest that you direct your questions to them directly.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what they say.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robert,
>>>>
>>>> I don't have a problem with the metar obversations, just the ones
>>>> announced by iyp as relates to time. I pulled two reports, one for
>>>> kphx (Phoenix Sky Harbor) and one for KLIT (Little Rock). I pulled
>>>> klit twoce actually. Both reports from kphx and klit were correct as
>>>> far as conditions, but the time reported was 0914. a 31 C temperature
>>>> at 3 A>M. in Little Rock is probably not completely correct. I pulled
>>>> KLIT a second time with a flight loaded to Little Rock. That time, I
>>>> got a 0915 Zulu time, and a temperature of 32.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a problem with the scrape of the new metar data?
>>>>
>>>> Noel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/9/13, Robert Cezar <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > REGARDING: METAR updates
>>>> >
>>>> > The METAR reports are typically updated at the end of each hour.
>>>> >
>>>> > Here's a good link that describes METAR in detail:
>>>> >
>>>> > http://weather.cod.edu/notes/metar.html
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards,
>>>> > Robert
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> I'm making out. Have found a few cosmetic if you will bugs which I
>>>> >> will
>>>> >> compile and send privately. When I ask to check weather for a
>>>> >> location
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> conditions seem to be ok but Zulu Time doesn't update much. Does the
>>>> >> new
>>>> >> service for metar not update often or is there some other problem?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Ner
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Sep 8, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Robert Cezar <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hi,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> How are you making out?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Robert
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> Hi guys,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I was flying this morning from cyyc o cyxj. About 180 miles from
>>>> >>> the
>>>> >>> airport, I sneezed into the microphone. It was not muted
>>>> >>> unfortunately. MS Speech Recognition took my sneeze as a keypress.
>>>> >>> two things happened in succession. First, I should say, these
>>>> >>> keypresses were on the FSX side, not the IYP Michelle side of
>>>> >>> things.
>>>> >>> First, the autopilot got turned off and second, my engine mixture
>>>> >>> was
>>>> >>> set to lean. I dropped from 1000 to nothing in about 10 seconds.
>>>> >>> Didn't know what happened because I didn't know what I pressed, so
>>>> >>> I
>>>> >>> thought fist to set engine mixture to rich, well I said lean, so I
>>>> >>> ultimately pulled back up to about 4000 feet, then fell back. In
>>>> >>> essence, FSX was confused. Finally got things dialed back in, and
>>>> >>> got
>>>> >>> up to 10300 feet and climbing, aTC yelling at me that I was above
>>>> >>> my
>>>> >>> altitude. That's when I found that autopilot got turned off. I
>>>> >>> would
>>>> >>> have started over because in real life, I would have been exploded
>>>> >>> into bits on the middle of frontier Canada, but I flew the flight
>>>> >>> last
>>>> >>> night and on approach, lost all FSX sound (nothing I could do to
>>>> >>> get
>>>> >>> it back either), so II just continued flying. I've got FSX set to
>>>> >>> not
>>>> >>> allow for crashes for some reason apparently under realism (I had
>>>> >>> not
>>>> >>> idea that could be set). Luckily for me, I'm save in Fort St.
>>>> >>> John.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Another note, upon landing, I got to 100 feet and the wind blew me
>>>> >>> up
>>>> >>> so I was a few feet from the ground but not landed and I didn't
>>>> >>> hear
>>>> >>> a
>>>> >>> bump or crash sound. So I pulled up (execute go around didn't work
>>>> >>> for some reason) flew a while and then prepared to land at the
>>>> >>> runway.
>>>> >>> Autopilot was on again again so I turned it off, did approach
>>>> >>> checklist again, and was able to land. I think that crosswinds
>>>> >>> caused
>>>> >>> problems for me, so when I came back the second time, they weren't
>>>> >>> as
>>>> >>> significant so Michelle was able to help.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> This is going to be a challenging trip.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Noel
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>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >
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