Zenga Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Hi folks, getting a grip of the dynamic weather engine now, one question came to my mind: I returned from a 2h mission and noted the weather had changed a bit on my base since I departed. Upon takeoff, I had moderate winds from 092° with medium to light snow. Once I came back, the wind had turned to 024° and the snow was now light rain (after that mission I fell in love with the dynamic weather engine - it's soooooo great and by far exceeded my expectations)! Although the changed wind did not change the landing direction (runway 07 in both cases) in use, I wonder if ATC would have assigned runway 25 for landing should the wind have turned further. Or is the runway-in-use a one-time decision by the system upon mission start that does not change even though the weather might change drastically? A related question: Has anybody ever been cleared for an approach other than visual in a Single Player mission? I'm just starting to use the dynamic weather but I haven't had a situation where a visual approach was not possible due to low visibility. Just wondering if ATC would ever issue a TACAN or ILS approach in case the weather requires.. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Zenga
WildFire Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 No other approaches. The tower is extremely rudimentary in this game. Hopefully they'll get to it someday. As for the change in runway direction, Im pretty sure it gets checked at mission start and never changed. Tower and airfield operations is something we just have to compromise with in this game for now.
Grimes Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Not a 100% sure if it would work like that. Its not exactly the easiest thing in the world to test as it takes a fair bit of wind to change the preferred landing direction. The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world. Current Projects: Grayflag Server, Scripting Wiki Useful Links: Mission Scripting Tools MIST-(GitHub) MIST-(Thread) SLMOD, Wiki wishlist, Mission Editing Wiki!, Mission Building Forum
Zenga Posted January 10, 2012 Author Posted January 10, 2012 Thanks, gents. Yes, I also assume the system determines the active runway upon mission start and leave it like this for the rest of the mission, just wanted to know if anybody knows for sure. I'll try if I can get the wind in my previously mentioned mission to turn further until there will be a tailwind component on the originally determined active runway. Might take some 3 hours or so, but in the mission there is a lot do in the meantime :D However, I might not be able to test it the coming days since I'm about to leave good ole Europe for one week holiday in California tomorrow...I know there are better times to go there than January, but it shouldn't be my last time there... ;) Cheers, Zenga
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