There are multiple weather files for each day so I imagine you'd need a massive archive for a year's worth of weather.
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So maybe we can start saving weather files (download at random and save) to build up our own databases and when FSRW do follow the HiFi simulations route (which hopefully wont happen soon), then we can share the downloaded files between us all to expand on our historical weather databases.
Just a thought. I am going to start doing this as soon as I can because having some sort of realistic weather in the sim is quite important to me.
Kind regards
Kabous
That's a great idea Kabous.
Here is 175 MB of downloaded weather for ASE since 2015. https://www.mediafire.com/file/hros7h7e6…eather.zip/file
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Kofi
Thanks Kofi
Even though I now use FSGlobal and their Real westher, I still have a copy of ASE in my archives as I mentioned, so I downloaded your files just for an incase somewhere in the future
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Kabous
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I have been meaning to start a thread around the following, but have not had the time to do so, but with all this happening, now may be the perfect time to do so.
I have been using FS Real Weather for quite some time. Switched from ASE long ago when they took forever to add King Shaka (FALE) to the database and the weather around Durban was always sunny since the old Durban airport and weather station (FADN) closed down (so no weather reports). What added to my decision to move was the fact that (at the time), X-Plane was also supported.
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Kind regards
Kabous
Is it possible to load old saved files? I also use FSRW but do not see an option to to say 'load from file' option.. unless I missed it.. I just download the current weather and go with it. I see there is a option to get past weather say days or a couple months ago but not sure you can actually save the data for later either.
Greg
Hi Greg
As "the other Greg"
already showed, you can indeed download and save weather files later. The only downside is that you cannot load the saved files "dynamically" as the downloads work but if the server ever goes off, having a static real shot of the weather is better than nothing at all, and you can always load a new file yourself every now and then for those longer files if you don't want the static weather.Again, let us hope the database and server stay online as long as possible, but this is my backup just for incase.....
Kabous
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There are multiple weather files for each day so I imagine you'd need a massive archive for a year's worth of weather.
Indeed Greg.
I started downloading the files on the day I did the post and I will check later but I think there is already something like 420MB of data in there.
I am still deciding on one of two ways forward with this.
1 - Merely downloading one file per day for the morning and one for the evening (as South Africa as an example is very use to thunderstorms in the evening and fog in the mornings) and using the file for the entire day of flying (obviously not the most realistic but at least something
)2 - Downloading as many of the files I can and utilizing an external source to host these files as the space required would be enormous. Having said this, even if I do decide on this way forward, I will probably only download a few (maybe 4 -
files for every day.Kabous
