Author Topic: How about metric gauges ? (Read 1529 times)

Werewolf · « **Reply #15 on:** December 22, 1999, 04:05:00 AM »

Hehe Hristo, not to forget that the should only be ammo counters where they have been.

Werewo

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 22, 1999, 04:42:00 AM »

heheh gliders in Europe are all metric (speed in KM/H, climb in m/sec alt in m), there are a LOT of PIPERS here that have Mph for the speed and most of the rest uses Knots (only the french stuff has km/h in it

Anyone of you ever seen a manifold pressure gauge that uses dBar (1/10 Bar?)

now go folks and conver that to inHG hehehe

DW6
-> Austria - Airfield Trieben - LOGI

-lynx- · « **Reply #17 on:** December 22, 1999, 08:42:00 AM »

Mustang? Who said anything about Mustangs? I've never even been into one, other than off-line. Both of us Brits *g* in 13th RAF - me and my evil twin pbicb - fly real man's plane - La-5

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eazydweeb · « **Reply #18 on:** December 22, 1999, 08:53:00 AM »

LOL gatt,
When I wrote:"Sailplane and Ultralight pilots over here have *mostly* metric gauges." I had my friends MK IV in mind. It sports a MpH gauge too

Never heard of a MK V mabe you really have a beta

are you EAA-member ?

Werewo: these guys in their 51s and f4u's don't need a ammo counter anyway they have more firing time than a 205 has fuel on WEP

gatt · « **Reply #19 on:** December 22, 1999, 10:58:00 AM »

Eazydweeb,

I got my UL license in Italy with a MkIII and then I bought a modified red MkIV with longer fuselage and bigger *elliptical* rudder-elevator. She was a beauty. A real beta MkV KitFox

but very stable in flight and easier to take off with.

When you know how to take off and land in a MkIII your a real taildragger

Her climbrate was about 1,200ft/min, like our C.205 .... couldnt resist again

funked · « **Reply #20 on:** December 22, 1999, 10:01:00 PM »

Putting in metric gauges is so easy that it's not worth arguing over! I'm guessing HTC will wait for the final revisions of the cockpit graphics before doing so.

-lynx- · « **Reply #21 on:** December 23, 1999, 02:13:00 AM »

Arguing? Who's arguing? Just squeaking cuz I'm at work and it's that daft time of the year again when I don't want to do anything

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niklas · « **Reply #22 on:** December 23, 1999, 06:25:00 AM »

as long as it´s a beta i prefer to have no metric gauges. It´s much easier without metric gauges to compare the performances of the planes

niklas

jmccaul · « **Reply #23 on:** December 23, 1999, 03:22:00 PM »

Speaking of metric/imperial did you here about the NASA probe a month or two ago that crashed into mars because the scientists had there metric and imperial numbers mixed up.

Freelancer · « **Reply #24 on:** December 23, 1999, 04:11:00 PM »

Regarding what somebody said above...

With WarBirds and the option to choose whichever displays you want:

It doesn't work. I always set mine to Feet/MPH, etc.. (Yup, I'm a Yank), but it always shows up on default. I'll tell ya, my first landing in a 190 really sucked!!

Thought I was looking at mph, and lo and behold! It was kph! (kinda throws you off when you think you're coming in way too fast, make a 200 MPH landing soft as a feather

The opposite is true also, I kept stalling well above flight operations speeds. Took me a while to really squint and look at the dang gague.

My point? Oh, yes, I knew there was a reason to this post! My point is: If you install the option to choose whatever displays you want (which would NOT affect reality, it would just save some of us delays in calculating the difference), make sure it works right...

-Freelancer

Dingy · « **Reply #25 on:** December 23, 1999, 10:50:00 PM »

Does this mean that the Japanese planes will use Kanji or Kana characters?

If so, I think we all are gonna need Mitsu to help us decipher how fast we are going!

-Ding

Freelancer · « **Reply #26 on:** December 25, 1999, 10:20:00 PM »

He has a good point, y'know?

And, if all measurements are done in each nation's own markings, then will all of the labels in the cockpit need to be in that language also?

I may want to fly, say... a P-39, but I don't want to learn Russian to do it!!

-Freelancer

VISCONTI · « **Reply #27 on:** December 25, 1999, 10:44:00 PM »

Why not?
We learn english ;-)

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 26, 1999, 03:57:00 AM »

HEAR HEAR visconti

nabe · « **Reply #29 on:** January 10, 2000, 03:03:00 PM »

Dingy : Does this mean that the Japanese planes will use Kanji or Kana characters?

No,Dingy

Japanese plane uses Arbic numerals. But, the name of the gauge is written in Kanji

In addition, IJN planes like Zeke and N1K2-J uses knot (*NOT KM/H*) because they are Navy. IJA planes like Ki-43, Ki-61, K-84 uses KM/H.

I have a question. USN planes like F4U also uses Knot, I think, doesn't it?

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Author Topic: How about metric gauges ? (Read 1529 times)

Werewolf

eazydweeb

funked

VISCONTI

nabe