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Title: Have pity for us euro pilots!
Post by: Jochen 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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Obfr. jochen 'Stern von Afrika' 2./ Jagdgeschwader 27 'Afrika'

Title: Have pity for us euro pilots!
Post by: Dancer on July 28, 1999, 10:13:00 AM

Hehe, funny  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Dancer out.

Title: Have pity for us euro pilots!
Post by: jonnyg on July 28, 1999, 10:45:00 AM

Another Flanker junkie Dancer?  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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

Title: Have pity for us euro pilots!
Post by: Bronco 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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Bronco
Pale Horses squadron