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ECOLE NATIONALE
DE LA METEOROLOGIE
42 avenue G. Coriolis
31057 TOULOUSE CEDEX, FRANCE
DIDACTICODE
COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
DEALING WITH THE 1993 VERSION
OF THE METAR CODE
06/02/93
INTRODUCTION :
To make meteorological code learning easy, a software was developed
at the "Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie", METEO-FRANCE. It aims
to teach the METAR code which is to be implemented on the 1st July
1993.
This computed assisted learning (CAL) module is designed at first
for initial training. It may satisfy also other needs resulting from
the 1993 METAR change.
This course will be distributed without cost in the french
meteorological services, to aeronautic users and in the foreign
national meteorological services through the World Meteorological
Organisation.
ENVIRONMENT REQUESTED FOR USE OF DIDACODE:
- a personal computer (IBM or compatible, with MS/DOS operating
system) with a mouse (mandatory).
- a VGA screen (color screen preferably). There is no compatibility
with other graphic adaptors.
- CALMETAR.EXE (english version: "Computer Assisted Learning") used either from the floppy disk or from the hard disk of
the computer.
LEARNING SESSION:
Follow the guide in the course! Instructions are provided as and
when required.
After a short presentation, you get to the heart of the matter with
the screen "METAR : Main Menu". Six chapters are proposed. The
transition from a chapter to the next one is automatic. If you start
at "Generalities", you can end up in "Exercises" without coming back
to the main menu. Otherwise, it is possible to bypass some chapters.
Requests for actions with the mouse appear regularly on the screen.
If you ask for help in any exercise, the cursor moves automatically
to the correct answer without moving the mouse. You have to click
this correct answer before going on.
FLOPPY DISK CONTENT :
You will find the four following files :
CALMETAR.EXE : english version of the course,
README : present document,
TAFMET1.NEW : WordPerfect METAR/TAF code card
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE :
To start the course, type :
CALMETAR + Return (english version)
IN CASE OF PROBLEM :
Some possible problems are listed below with their probable origin
and suggested solution:
- impossible to read the floppy disk: check the operating system;
if it is not MS/DOS, work with another PC.
- impossible to start the course:
if no mouse, install one and reinitialize the PC,
if no mouse driver, add the instruction "DEVICE = MOUSE.SYS" in the
configuration file and reinitialize the PC.
- interruption during a session: the available memory is not
sufficient. This sofware does not need much memory space and there
are probably other applications filling the memory (Windows, ...).
Close enough of them.
- screen shows strange images (overlapping texts, traces remaining
after object displacements, ...): the graphic adaptor is probably
not VGA. Work with another PC.
GOOD LUCK