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METAR(1) FlightGear man pages METAR(1)

NAME

metar - demo METAR utility for FlightGear

SYNOPSIS

metar -h | --help | [-v | --verbose] [-e elevation | --elevation elevation] [-r | --report | -c | --command-line] <list of ICAO airport IDs or METAR strings>

DESCRIPTION

metar is a demo utility for FlightGear that retrieves a METAR (encoded weather information) for one or more given airports from the Internet and displays it in a user-readable form. Optionally, it can also print the command-line arguments required to start fgfs(1) at the current time and with the weather conditions in effect.

OPTIONS

Display usage information and exit.
Display debugging information while performing the required operation.
Set the airport elevation to elevation meters.
Print the weather information on the screen in a user-readable form.
Print the command-line arguments required to start FlightGear at the current time and with the weather conditions in effect.

EXIT STATUS

metar exits with 0 on success, with 1 if the syntax of the command-line arguments is wrong or an error occurs.

ENVIRONMENT

Specifies the HTTP proxy to use. Must be in the form http://host:port/.

EXAMPLE

Print the current weather information for KSFO and KOAK:


$ metar KSFO KOAK

Print the current weather information for KSFO, as well as the command line arguments required to start FlightGear with the weather conditions in effect:


$ metar -c KSFO -r KSFO

Print the given METAR string as a user-readable weather report:


$ metar "LOWL 161500Z 19004KT 160V240 9999 FEW035 SCT300 29/23 Q1006 NOSIG"

SEE ALSO

fgfs(1), the FlightGear wiki "Weather reports" page

2017-06-25 FlightGear