Adding Weather to Missions - Part 2
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Marvelous work Bonkin! I use to work with clouds, and I`m also lucky that nobody asked me how it works, because I coudn`t explain that.
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Re: Adding Weather to Missions - Part 2
Top work with the weather Bonks,I know I don't fly Campaign nights anymore,but one has got to admire talent such as this........I salute you Sir
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Meaker I don't know if you are aware of who that person is in your avatar?
That is F/L Christopher 'Bunny' Currant, DSO, DFC and bar No.605 Sqn. So the genuine "Bunny"
That is F/L Christopher 'Bunny' Currant, DSO, DFC and bar No.605 Sqn. So the genuine "Bunny"
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I've always loved his name - "Currant Bunny" Reminds me, my great uncle was always known as Uncle Bun - absolutely no idea why.
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Impressive Bonks, really interesting. I certainly think that you should be talking to Thaine for his viewpoint on whatever you want to use though, since he's a professional meteorologist, not that you don't know what a cloud is - you are certainly the foremost weatherman in the FMB though!
This one though, I think that this is really accurate actually, only they should probably be a higher layer. Seen these sorts of formations from airliners heading into Britain
Also, since you have a couple of threads on this I think this whole thing could be turned into a web page in our Flight School, under the FMB section.
http://www.aircombatgroup.co.uk/flight_ ... tion=0#nav
Or at least stickied.
This one though, I think that this is really accurate actually, only they should probably be a higher layer. Seen these sorts of formations from airliners heading into Britain
Also, since you have a couple of threads on this I think this whole thing could be turned into a web page in our Flight School, under the FMB section.
http://www.aircombatgroup.co.uk/flight_ ... tion=0#nav
Or at least stickied.
Re: Adding Weather to Missions - Part 2
Great work Bonkin,
This looks really promising. Although it makes my heart cry to see what features were intended and not implemented (cloud turbulence, precipitation, etc...)
Here you see that the coverage of cumulus is varying a bit, but especially in the north there's rather shallow and sparse cloud coverage. Mind you. FEW means 1-2 octas, so not many at all.
I'll have a look at the archives and see what I can gather about the weather in 1940. I started that endeavor before and it's not easy, because Meteorology was still in it's infancy during that era. But I might get some cornerstones and at least give some realistic values for cloud height, type and coverage.
Looking forward to it.
This looks really promising. Although it makes my heart cry to see what features were intended and not implemented (cloud turbulence, precipitation, etc...)
Dickie is right on that one though. That's typical weather for nice summer forenoons, when cloud development is just about to kick off, or after a cold front passage.Dickie wrote: This one though, I think that this is really accurate actually, only they should probably be a higher layer. Seen these sorts of formations from airliners heading into Britain
Also, since you have a couple of threads on this I think this whole thing could be turned into a web page in our Flight School, under the FMB section.
http://www.aircombatgroup.co.uk/flight_ ... tion=0#nav
Here you see that the coverage of cumulus is varying a bit, but especially in the north there's rather shallow and sparse cloud coverage. Mind you. FEW means 1-2 octas, so not many at all.
I'll have a look at the archives and see what I can gather about the weather in 1940. I started that endeavor before and it's not easy, because Meteorology was still in it's infancy during that era. But I might get some cornerstones and at least give some realistic values for cloud height, type and coverage.
Looking forward to it.
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