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Title: Winds Aloft
Post by: earl1937 on November 17, 2013, 04:48:47 AM
 :airplane: I wish AH would include on the in game E6B, include either from or to when stating the wind direction. As it stands now, with the wind changing direction so quickly at high altitude, I think it would be useful to know if the wind is blowing from a direction or to a direction. I have always knew that when a controller or weather people made a statement or I read a weather report, if it reported winds, 270 @ 15, gusts to 20, I knew the wind was from the West, blowing to the East! I was in a mission last night to high altitude and there was some discussion about this, because the wind was "weather vane" us in the same direction as the wind was stated, if one is to assume that AH is using the same definition of wind direction as the FAA and weather reports.
The aircraft should be "weather vane" into the wind, not turning with the wind. Should would make it a lot easier to compute a drift angle, so as to make a constant track over the terrain.
Title: Re: Winds Aloft
Post by: Volron on November 17, 2013, 12:23:15 PM
I'd settle with a much cleaner wind legend.  I can barely make out the mess that we have now, and there are only two options, on or off.
Title: Re: Winds Aloft
Post by: hitech on November 17, 2013, 03:08:07 PM
:airplane: I wish AH would include on the in game E6B, include either from or to when stating the wind direction. As it stands now, with the wind changing direction so quickly at high altitude, I think it would be useful to know if the wind is blowing from a direction or to a direction. I have always knew that when a controller or weather people made a statement or I read a weather report, if it reported winds, 270 @ 15, gusts to 20, I knew the wind was from the West, blowing to the East! I was in a mission last night to high altitude and there was some discussion about this, because the wind was "weather vane" us in the same direction as the wind was stated, if one is to assume that AH is using the same definition of wind direction as the FAA and weather reports.
The aircraft should be "weather vane" into the wind, not turning with the wind. Should would make it a lot easier to compute a drift angle, so as to make a constant track over the terrain.

Right click clip board, turn wind display on. Top right corner of your map displays wind direction/speed and alt's of all wind layers.

HiTech
Title: Re: Winds Aloft
Post by: earl1937 on November 17, 2013, 03:10:22 PM
Right click clip board, turn wind display on. Top right corner of your map displays wind direction/speed and alt's of all wind layers.

HiTech
:airplane: Thanks, did not know that!
Title: Re: Winds Aloft
Post by: FLS on November 17, 2013, 05:23:14 PM
If you find the map legend hard to read you can look at the wind settings in Arena Settings.
Title: Re: Winds Aloft
Post by: ImADot on November 17, 2013, 06:36:39 PM
Instead of arrows (all originating in the same spot) and speeds as we have now, which can be hard to read due to many different levels/directions/speeds, can we have a text display similar to the damage data? Something like:

Winds:
  0k-8k calm
  8k-18k W-E 10
  18k+ SW-NE 25
Title: Re: Winds Aloft
Post by: Volron on November 18, 2013, 01:21:05 PM
Instead of arrows (all originating in the same spot) and speeds as we have now, which can be hard to read due to many different levels/directions/speeds, can we have a text display similar to the damage data? Something like:

Winds:
  0k-8k calm
  8k-18k W-E 10
  18k+ SW-NE 25

Yes please!
Title: Re: Winds Aloft
Post by: Mongoose on November 20, 2013, 11:21:54 PM
Right click clip board, turn wind display on. Top right corner of your map displays wind direction/speed and alt's of all wind layers.

HiTech

  It may be a little hard to read when I am in a hurry, but I have found it helpful.