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Offline Jochen

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Have pity for us euro pilots!
« on: July 28, 1999, 08:35:00 AM »
Please make option which allows altitude meter readout and range displayed on icons to be in meters too! I can't figure altitude if they are in feets. And toggle between IAS and TAS on speed gauge would help plane benchmarking a lot...

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Offline Dancer

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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 1999, 10:13:00 AM »
Hehe, funny  

I have had a very hard time to deal with
meters and kph in aviation when I first
encountered them in SU-27.

When WB introduced the possibility of
metric alt and kph read-outs on axis planes,
I started to use it because of "realism".

Meanwhile, altitude isn't that much of
a problem (approx factor 3 in difference).
For Speed I still go for the position of
the kph needle rather than actually reading
how much it is  

Dancer out.

Offline jonnyg

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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 1999, 10:45:00 AM »
Another Flanker junkie Dancer?  

v2.0 out soon! (yeah right!) looks good tho.

As far as mph/kph feet/metres...it doesn't seem difficult to me here in England, but then again our country is very much still a 'dual' system country - that is the older generation still works mostly on imperial whereas younger generations are on metric. To communicate, we kind of have to become experten at both  

If your cockpit starts shaking then you know you are going fast!

If the stall horn is constantly blaring, you know you are bloody high!

LOL
Jon

Offline Bronco

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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 1999, 05:23:00 PM »
Just spit out the canopy and watch it till it hits the ground, calculate for wind etc.....

hehe  feets

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