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Most Airports Have 10 NM visibility on the ground?

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Using Active Sky (ASA) and most airports appear to have 10nm as their visibility unless it is less than 10nm. Is this a real world default of something peculiar to ASA?

regards,

Dick near Pittsburgh, USA

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Using Active Sky (ASA) and most airports appear to have 10nm as their visibility unless it is less than 10nm. Is this a real world default of something peculiar to ASA?
The standard auto-generated METAR reports have either "10SM" or "9999" (meters) encoded as the indication that the visibility is AT LEAST 10SM or 10 km, respectively. Only human-operated stations provide any measures greater than that. But ASA should have a feature to generate a random or interpolated value above the automatic report value. Have you checked?RegardsPete

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The standard auto-generated METAR reports have either "10SM" or "9999" (meters) encoded as the indication that the visibility is AT LEAST 10SM or 10 km, respectively. Only human-operated stations provide any measures greater than that. But ASA should have a feature to generate a random or interpolated value above the automatic report value. Have you checked?RegardsPete
No, but I sure will. New to ASA.Thanks Pete.

regards,

Dick near Pittsburgh, USA

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