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Meaning of numbers in parentheses in winds aloft?

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  • Commercial Member

Hi,Not sure why you see commas in the positive floating point temperature values. Might be language/regional/format setting related. AS writes via standard windows number formatting as per your configuration. Looks like for positive numbers, the . is being replaced with , such as in german/dutch setups.All textual wind info is in TRUE. All spoken wind info is in Magnetic (assuming you have the latest AS2004.5 build).Hope that helps!

Damian Clark
HiFi  Simulation Technologies

I'm using Polish setup. I don't care if I see commas or dots but values with commas are simply wrong. When I check (looking at World -> Weather -> Customise Weather -> Advanced Weather -> Temp. Pressure) these temperatures I have following results:for FL030: 295/10 (0,5) ---> 13C --> NO SENSEfor FL060: 289/11 (0,3) ---> 8C ---> NO SENSEfor FL090: 296/14 (0,2) ---> 6C ---> NO SENSEfor FL120: 310/32 (-00.7) -> -1C --> OKfor FL180: 315/35 (-12.2) -> -12C -> OKand following FL's -> OKConclusion: Something is wrong with positive values.

  • Commercial Member

Hi,As stated, we are writing the textual values using standard windows formatting as per your configuration.We write: Format(TemperatureValue, "0.0")This means the temperature will be displayed with at least one "whole number" digit and only one "tenths digit". The value will be converted as per your language/regional settings.I can guarantee that the temperaturevalue is indeed correct (the same value is used to write the actual temp to FS), so it is getting messed up in your textual number formatting settings.Have you examined your settings here?Any other Polish language/regional setting users here? FWIW I've not seen a report like this before, further confirming that the problem is isolated to your system.Take a look at the settings and let me know if you find anything. You may wish to change to another setting temporarily to verify.. i.e. try English (US).Let me know!

Damian Clark
HiFi  Simulation Technologies

Enclosed is screenshot with my Polish regional settings and another screenshot wit AS2004 interface.When I temporarily changed to US regional setting everything looked OK, but I can't leave it that way because we in Poland have to adhere to our format of numbers.Maybe (if time permits) you can look closer at this problem. This problem is not isolated to my system but to default configuration of Windows for Poland.

  • Commercial Member

Hi,I duplicated and found that there is an apparent bug or general incompatibility here in the Polish settings.It is in the currency settings, for decimal symbol. If this is set to a comma (,) then the standard numbers (non-currency) are being treated incorrectly, the positive numbers are completely off (as noted) and the negative numbers are still showing a period (.) instead of (,). When changing currency decimal symbol to period (.) all works normally with normal numbers, but then I fear that your currency display will be off, showing periods instead of commas.Not sure what to do about this one! I will look into variations of the number formatting display in AS to see if I can "trick" it into displaying properly despite this problem... not sure if that will work though...

Damian Clark
HiFi  Simulation Technologies

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