July 27, 200421 yr Hello,Today I tried to retreive old metars and TAF so I cut "online updates" and "use system time" in order to set hour and day of activesky via fs2004 time settingsSor, I launch fs2004 and set fs2004 day to july 25th and go to LFQQ aiportBut if I change the fs2004 hour, the metar and taf stay always the same(So, I use download function of AS2004 but same.I use 1300Z, 1500Z and 1700Z and result is my file is always named 20040725_12Z.dat :(Could someone try the same and explain resultshere is two screenshots to show you my process and settings
July 27, 200421 yr Commercial Member Hi,Offline archives are provided every 6 hours (00Z, 06Z, 12Z, 18Z). Your input in the archive download screen is rounded DOWN to the nearest 6hr archive. So things are working normally. In your example if you used 18 (through 23) you would get the 18Z archive. This is explained in the documentation. To handle the changes in weather from one 6-hour archive to the next, TAF processing should be enabled.We are working on providing hourly archives as well as synchronous "replay" of historical wx (i.e. you start at 1300Z and fly for 5 hours, and you'll get the 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700 METAR, TAF and winds data appropriately). This is a ways out but it is coming!Hope that helps.. Damian ClarkHiFi Simulation Technologies
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