Improved wind barb visibility

When enabling wind barbs, they are often very hard to see depending on region, map and zoom level. It would be nice to improve visibility somewhat. Some ideas:

  1. Slightly bolder lines. I don’t think that’ll always help, though, and might hide other information.
  2. Allow other map elements (possibly all non-weather elements) to be made less visible, possibly with an opacity slider. This would help to focus on weather information.
  3. There could be a separate customizable weather map preset, possibly variants for IFR high/low, VFR, too, which users could adjust to their needs.

In SimBrief it’s less important, because it’s easier to switch to just a base layer.

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