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ASN weather information?

Started by kermit_70, December 03, 2014, 10:38:51 AM

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kermit_70

Hello, I have a couple of basic questions on the way Plan-G handles information from ASN-generated weather.
I understand that currently (v3) there is no map overlay for winds, clouds or precipitation (that would be a great update, of course!).
I see that if I set plan-G up to get weather info directly from FSX (in my case that would be ASN-generated), then I could get in Plan-G a METAR-like table for weather stations at START and END of a flight plan.

Questions:
1) Can I get the same table with information on ALL available METARs along the route of my flighplan (and not just beginning and end)?
2) Can I get these same METARs directly on the map, and not just in table format?

Apologies is this is all obvious to you, but I am just starting with Plan-G...

Thanks!

tim arnot

Hover your mouse over the airport, and both TAFs and METARs will be shown in the popup, if they're available.

Tim. @TimArnot

Tommtongue

How do you get ASN weather in Plan G.

I have plan g networked, ASN on a seperate computer networked. ASN weather loads in FSX but Plan G still shows the winds and I assume weather from FSX weather engine not ASN.

How do I get PlanG to show ASN weather??

FlyingAxx

Quote from: Tommtongue on March 23, 2015, 07:56:16 AM
How do you get ASN weather in Plan G.

I have plan g networked, ASN on a seperate computer networked. ASN weather loads in FSX but Plan G still shows the winds and I assume weather from FSX weather engine not ASN.

How do I get PlanG to show ASN weather??

As far as I observed, Plan-G shows exactly at least the winds being injected by ASN. When flying big irons like PMDG's T7 or the NGX the wind information (speed and direction) given is identical. I didn't check the airport related METAR information within Plan-G up to now as I use ASN directly.
Regards,
Axel

tim arnot

METARs come from NOAA, which is one of very few public free aggregators of METAR and TAF data. Bearing in mind that airports only issue METARS/TAFs once an hour (and not all airports report H24), it's about as accurate as it can be. The server is polled every 15 minutes - assuming you have WebWX active in Plan-G - so data should be no more than 75 minutes out of date for an actively reporting airport.

Tim. @TimArnot

FlyingAxx

Okay, a second independent source.  :azn:
Regards,
Axel