SimConnect_WeatherRequestCloudState

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rsubers2
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SimConnect_WeatherRequestCloudState

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I am trying to get the rough altitude and density of cloud layers around an aircraft using SimConnect. It appears that SimConnect_WeatherRequestCloudState does not really give that and the best I can do is divide the area around the aircraft into cells and the altitude into bands and make a call for each altitude band using a zero vs non-zero return value for each cellto indicate clouds present vs not present in the specified altitude band in that cell (since based on other forum comments the value returned sounds like it is a layer count and not a density). Is that correct?
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