Thermal TGP and clouds.

[Taproot]

Hey guys

 

I made some clouds on a mission yesterday. Density @ 9, base @ 1500 meters and thickness at 1050 meters.

 

When I flew over the clouds I could not see under the clouds, except I found out if I flew just above them and at prox 5 NM ahead. When I flew in the clouds I lost visual of the ground, same happend if I flew to high above them.

 

Is this working as intended, or is it a bug?

[EFDAZZYD]

I think any thermal equipment would struggle with a 1000 meters of cloud, that's pretty thick soup.

 

Try a thinner layer and see if that helps, Just a thought.

[Taproot]

Well. The intension is to force us to fly under the deck.

 

I just wonder if it is working as intended that I could see through the clouds at those settings I used. :)

[Rongor]

Even small amounts of water vapour produce greyish and blurry images in thermal optics. Dont expect your thermal view to see through any cloud. This is no radar. Generally your FLIR equipment needs the same line of sight like your eyes do.

[Hamblue]

To see through clouds set the tgp to dark mode and adjust the intensity.

I don't know what thickness it will see through but definetely does.

[cltmmm]

Even small amounts of water vapour produce greyish and blurry images in thermal optics. Dont expect your thermal view to see through any cloud. This is no radar. Generally your FLIR equipment needs the same line of sight like your eyes do.

 

DARPA has a program now called ViSAR that is supposed to give true all weather day/night imaging. Extreme high frequency radar to see through everything with short enough wavelength for resolution.

 

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/STO/Programs/Video_Synthetic_Aperture_Radar_(ViSAR).aspx