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Introducing MetarMonkey v.00001
I wrote this little proggy to get the local conditions at my airport
quickly. I thought some you might be interested in checking it out. It's a little rough but I thought if you guys are game, it would be nice to have some feedback. It's free. No commercial aspirations.... http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org...etarMonkey.asp Jim http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org |
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Cool. I didn't know there is another student/pilot knows how to program
beside me. There is a market for this type of product if you are into business. You can build a trainning software for students who had hard time with weather and decoding. Users can click into a part of METAR such as "10SM" and will see a little popup text on the bottom with explaination. In addition, you can build a tutorial on how to read Surface Analysis and Weather Chart... all with those funky little symbols. I mean you can just let your imagination go really far on it. I know there is a software called COMM1 for radio trouble people (me lolz). However, I have not seen any software about weather trouble people and software for checkride ready. I am sure there is a huge market for this and big company like Jeppesen won't let it slide too long. |
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ok...how do you get the thing back out of the machine? i had to do a
full system restore to get it to uninstall!! no, i'm not very good at computer guts. dan |
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Exit the program and delete the directory.
On 4 Sep 2005 11:50:23 -0700, "houstondan" wrote: ok...how do you get the thing back out of the machine? i had to do a full system restore to get it to uninstall!! no, i'm not very good at computer guts. dan Jim http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org |
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Just in case.
To exit the program, Chose File-Exit from the menu or right click on the Tray Icon (Red Airplane and Cloud) and select "Exit MetarMonkey" On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:52:33 GMT, Jimbob wrote: Exit the program and delete the directory. On 4 Sep 2005 11:50:23 -0700, "houstondan" wrote: ok...how do you get the thing back out of the machine? i had to do a full system restore to get it to uninstall!! no, i'm not very good at computer guts. dan Jim http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org Jim http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org |
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Jimbob wrote in
: http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org/Software/M Tried it. Liked it. I'll send it to my students. Saw a few things I that I would like to point out though: 1. Column headings are white and don't show up ( my eyes are old though) 2. What name format are you looking for on runway name? Just whatever ( a string)? 3. Crosswind displayed for only one runway, presumably the first one listed. A Tooltip could be used to display the remaining runways, or an additional text area. 4. A toggle to display plain english or raw METAR/TAF. Altogether a really good effort. Thanks. Dan |
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On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:29:02 -0000, PilotCFI
wrote: Jimbob wrote in : http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org/Software/M Tried it. Liked it. I'll send it to my students. Saw a few things I that I would like to point out though: 1. Column headings are white and don't show up ( my eyes are old though) I will look at letting the user decide color combinations. White provides the most contrast on my machine, but everyone has preferences. 2. What name format are you looking for on runway name? Just whatever ( a string)? What ever you want to use. It's not really used now, except for editing, but I felt like it might be in the future. 3. Crosswind displayed for only one runway, presumably the first one listed. A Tooltip could be used to display the remaining runways, or an additional text area. It's not the first one. If you have multiple runways, MM will dermine the active runway based on minimal x-wind and maximal headwind components. That may not be the true active runway at some airports, but it's the one with the best wind situation. 4. A toggle to display plain english or raw METAR/TAF. Third button from the left. The tool tip is not working for some reason. Altogether a really good effort. Thanks. Dan Thanks a bunch for the feedback. Jim http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org |
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Jimbob wrote in : On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:29:02 -0000, PilotCFI wrote: Jimbob wrote in m: http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org/Software/M Tried it. Liked it. I'll send it to my students. Saw a few things I that I would like to point out though: 1. Column headings are white and don't show up ( my eyes are old though) I will look at letting the user decide color combinations. White provides the most contrast on my machine, but everyone has preferences. True. White provides almost no contrast on my monitor. 2. What name format are you looking for on runway name? Just whatever ( a string)? What ever you want to use. It's not really used now, except for editing, but I felt like it might be in the future. 3. Crosswind displayed for only one runway, presumably the first one listed. A Tooltip could be used to display the remaining runways, or an additional text area. It's not the first one. If you have multiple runways, MM will dermine the active runway based on minimal x-wind and maximal headwind components. That may not be the true active runway at some airports, but it's the one with the best wind situation. Actually I like that. For me as an instructor and sometime wanting the most crosswind, perhaps a tooltip showing all runway XW's? Since most runways are build to take advantage of prevailing winds, and in some places they prevail to the point of not getting any XW practice, I would really like this feature. Do I understand correctly that you are using '-' to indicate left XW? 4. A toggle to display plain english or raw METAR/TAF. Third button from the left. The tool tip is not working for some reason. Altogether a really good effort. Thanks. Dan Thanks a bunch for the feedback. Jim http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org Jim, just because I am also a programmer (C/VB/PHP mostly) and I am just curious; what language are you using? It has a VB feel to it, but that may be way off base. I have one local airport with just an AWOS on no web interface. Still when I pull up MM I get some weather indications, but the Monkey stays red. I take it this is by design? Dan |
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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:09:22 GMT, PilotCFI
wrote: Actually I like that. For me as an instructor and sometime wanting the most crosswind, perhaps a tooltip showing all runway XW's? Since most runways are build to take advantage of prevailing winds, and in some places they prevail to the point of not getting any XW practice, I would really like this feature. Hmm. That's a good idea. I looked at it from a student's wenie pilot perspective, but I can see that there might be an advantage to having maximal x-winds as well. I will look into it. I'd like to show all the runwayss on the graphic, but that requires some extra thinking on how to visually superimpose them. Maybe I can scroll through them in the short term. Do I understand correctly that you are using '-' to indicate left XW? I'm not sure what "-" you are referring to. Would that be the windsock on the runway graphic? Jim, just because I am also a programmer (C/VB/PHP mostly) and I am just curious; what language are you using? It has a VB feel to it, but that may be way off base. VB? Eek! Actually, it's managed C# under visual studio. We just recently changed to the platform and this is my first attempt at a windows form application. I have one local airport with just an AWOS on no web interface. Still when I pull up MM I get some weather indications, but the Monkey stays red. I take it this is by design? It's probably timing out. My home base doesn't have web AWOS either. That's why I added the "Weather Station" box in the airport setup. It acts like virtual station, applying the metar info from a nearby airport. Example: My airport is 8A6, but I set the Weather station to KEQY(7 miles away) and use it's weather info. The thing I am working on now is a way to donwload the NOTAMS for a specific airport. Something happened to me last week, well lets just say that there was a VERY important NOTAM that was buried that I missed. Thanks for the suggestions. I am going to incorporate a few in the next couple of weeks. Jim http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org |
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