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Jun 10^th, 2003 at 1:25pm

Sim_Man Offline
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HI All, I have just started to use real weather and when it says its downloading does this mean it is downloading data to my hard drive and if so what path does it go to.
Do i need to delete these files when i have finished flying..many thanks for in advance for any help.

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Reply #1 - Jun 10^th, 2003 at 3:29pm

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I am almost sure that the weather data is only read and not saved... meaning, the FS probabely uses the information and forgets it right away, 'cause you can't use it afterwards. and no, you don't have to delete it.

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Reply #2 - Jun 10^th, 2003 at 4:05pm

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That's right.

The weather is downloaded into a temp folder and used in the FS environment only. When you close the sim, it's flushed out, until the next time you load real weather.

No need to worry about cleaning anything out. Honestly, I think it's a MS Mystery where that data goes.
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Reply #3 - Jun 10^th, 2003 at 10:25pm

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it is downloaded and is put into the folder Flights--->myflights--->to a file called Previous flight.WX, Program generated temporary flight.WX, or UI Generated Temporary Flight.WX (not sure which one for sure
If you save the flight the name of the file changes to the new name of the flight you created. For every flight that is saved there is a WX file with it. If you want to change the weather for a saved flight start the flight and save the light under the same name.

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Reply #4 - Jun 11^th, 2003 at 1:09am

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When you download weather, it does not save it anywhere on your harddrive untill you save your flight, and then it's 'yourflightname.wx' or something like that

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Reply #5 - Jun 11^th, 2003 at 7:03am

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When you download weather, it does not save it anywhere on your harddrive untill you save your flight, and then it's 'yourflightname.wx' or something like that

Andrew is correct. I misread the question.
If you are worried about HD space, The file size can be as small as 100 bytes where there is no weather to almost 3 MB with alot of weather. The 2002 Christmas Nor'easter snow storm is a good example

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Reply #6 - Jun 11^th, 2003 at 2:41pm

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Many many thanks to all of you for your help....

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