The ident of the selected airport is used in FSX and P3D only provide non-interpolated weather forĪirports close to the user aircraft.
The flight simulator using three stations closest to the selectedĪirport. Interpolated (not for X-Plane): The weather is interpolated by Weather station is not necessarily an airport. Shown in the METAR and on the decoded weather tab. Ident of the closest station as well as distance and elevation are Report from the closest existing weather station was fetched. Nearest: The selected airport has no weather station and the Station: The airport has a weather station. Weather information from a flight simulator or the X-Plane METAR.rwxįalls in one of three categories, depending on the selected airport: Highlighted in red if the METAR information is older than six hours. The date and time information of the decoded weather display is Decoded weather information for all sources is available in the tab METARs are shown in the airport tooltips and on the Airport overview Load Scenery Library dialog to enable reading of the weather file.Ĭertain features like regions of manually created weather files are not You have to set the base path for X-Plane in the
Not that this download has nothing to do with the METAR functions above and is fetched from another source (NOAA/NOMAD). Main menu Weather -> Wind source: This source is used for all winds aloft functions: Map display wind grid symbols, map tooltip, flight plan table, elevation profile (hover tooltip), TOD and TOC calculation, fuel planning, ETA calculation and trip time calculation.
Based on METAR of the airport and does not affect anything else except the weather symbols on the map. Main menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source: This is for the airport weather icons on the map. This is based on the airport METAR reports and does not affect anything else besides information and tooltip. Options dialog on page Weather: There you define what source is shown in the information window and in the map tooltip. Weather display and information can be selected in the following locations: When Little Navmap runs on a different computer than your flight X-Plane real time weather from the METAR.rwx file. Weather can be taken from the following sources:įSX or P3D if connected. Information window and tooltips as well as weather symbols on the map. Little Navmap can display weather as METARs and decoded weather in the