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Wind announcment wrong


Jon Stoops 1011320
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Jon Stoops 1011320
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Wind was at 010@12, however vATIS was announcing wind "Two Four at One Two".

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Don Desfosse
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Do you have a Magnetic Variation set up in your Configuration settings? If so, how many degrees?

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Jon Stoops 1011320
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Magnetic variation set at 14 degrees. Turned it off and problem fixed. thanks

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Don Desfosse
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Excellent. If you (and your ARTCC) want to use that feature, suggest you round to the nearest 10 degrees.

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Bradley Grafelman
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Although it's not much, suggest you consider accounting for magnetic variation for realism (whether vATIS is used or not); a METAR showing "31007KT" at KSLC would be spoken as "three zero zero at seven." If nothing else, it's one more trivia-type fact for new students to learn when you're teaching METAR parsing. =)

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