January 31, 200620 yr Commercial Member I just finished my first traffic detection gauge (based on the ATD300, and now available from the AVSIM library) and now I want to start work on a new gauge based on the L3/Goodrich SKY497. This gauge is basically a traffic awareness system with a TCAS 1 flavour. one of the options of this product however is that the CRT can also be used as a stormscope (optional).But how to detect lightning strikes ? As far as I know this info is not available from FSUIPC (or is it by now ?), but I seem to remember there is some payware FS add-on that shows just that: lightning strikes !Anyone have any idea how this is detected ?Thx,Bj Bj
January 31, 200620 yr Moderator There's not any way to "detect" lightning in FS9, AFAIK. I suspect that all those that proport to display "strikes" are doing some randomly, based on some internal algorithim... Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
January 31, 200620 yr Commercial Member Well maybe if I could detect CB's then I could "guess" there are going to be lightning strikes, but how to know where those's CB's are ?Bj Bj
February 2, 200620 yr The product you are refering to may well be the Reality XP SN3308 Sandel:http://www.reality-xp.com/products/SN3308/index.htmSome pictures of the Strike Finder:http://www.reality-xp.com/products/SN3308/features.htmIt is not entirely randomly generated either...Hope this helps!
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