Author Topic: Speedometer (Read 656 times)

Kevin14 · « **on:** August 16, 2002, 09:17:21 AM »

Since I'm American I can only read mph, but everyone else not in the US can read metric, so

In the Flight options in the setup menu you could select the type of speedometer that applies to you?

Wlfgng · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2002, 09:28:04 AM »

it should be aircraft specific IMO

Masherbrum · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2002, 09:32:03 AM »

Yep, same here. Craft specific

Captured German planes and vice versa weren't automatically touched up with the capturing country's language.

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Octavius · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2002, 01:23:47 PM »

cc Karaya. I can speak fluent Rook, but Bish gave me a tough time. I think its a deviation of Klingon!

Otto · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2002, 01:41:28 PM »

Are you talking about the 'Airspeed Indicator'?

Durr · « **Reply #5 on:** August 16, 2002, 02:40:37 PM »

I agree, I think planes should have the same markings and measurements used as they actually had in real life, i.e. metric for the German planes etc.

muckmaw · « **Reply #6 on:** August 16, 2002, 03:04:23 PM »

If the marking were real, or true to historical fact, would'nt the airspeed indicator be measured in knots?

Or is it already?

boxboy28 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 16, 2002, 03:18:06 PM »

both
I think it should be like the cars of today reading both in metric and mph'S

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Karnak · « **Reply #8 on:** August 16, 2002, 05:19:07 PM »

The reason HTC only uses MPH is because most of their subscribers are US citizens and having to convert kph and meters to mph and feet is a handicap that the pilots of these aircraft would never have had. It is more realistic, from a performance standpoint, to have the cockpit display data in units that are immediately understood.

That said, I think that an option to switch everything to metric would be good for non-US subscribers as they currently have to convert mph and feet to kph and meters and that isn't really fair.

LLv34_Snefens · « **Reply #9 on:** August 16, 2002, 06:13:03 PM »

I must admit that I have been sorta brainwashed by the pure imperial units used in AH.
For all other purposes I swear to metric units, but when talking about aviation and I see that some plane might have a SL speed of 570 kph, I need to convert it to mph to be able to relate to it

Still I am all for having the planes use whatever unit they really did.
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SKurj · « **Reply #10 on:** August 16, 2002, 06:32:57 PM »

Kevin... they still not teaching any metric in the US???!!

alotta these old guys will never be able to figure out metric... but yourself.... your a kid, learn metric +) it won't hurt ya..

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BenDover · « **Reply #11 on:** August 17, 2002, 08:35:47 AM »

we British are smart enough to use both

vorticon · « **Reply #12 on:** August 17, 2002, 10:00:01 AM »

what are they marked in now???

hazed- · « **Reply #13 on:** August 17, 2002, 12:10:50 PM »

what a complete load of old hogwash that is!!

a disadvantage to americans because they cant convert to metric??

We use mph in the UK but most of europe use metric. Its easy to go from one to the other and to claim otherwise is to claim yourself stupid.

British planes have the boost system instead of manifold pressure and obviously once you've flown them once you will know that there is no difference. the needle inside a circular readout tells you the information, whats printed on the face behind the needle is almost irrelevant once you know the rough position it should be for any given objective(fuel conservation etc).

the aircraft creaks at high speeds and gives stall warning at low speeds (or sounds like a stall) so there really is no need to do anything but scan the dials.I cannot believe someone is trying to claim they are at a disadvantage because they refuse to use their brains.

I would like to see the real dials for all planes! if the russian one is different and hard to read you fly them for a while and 'what do you know!' you learn to understand them.its easy.

we would get used to them within a couple of days.well of course that is, unless youre American!. That really is a very funny claim and one that i wouldnt go shouting about if i was from the US. its embarrasin'

BenDover · « **Reply #14 on:** August 17, 2002, 12:43:30 PM »

wait, you guys use instruments?!?!

and why's it so hard for you to work out metric anyway?

its piss easy compared to the imperial

12 inch in 1 foot, 3 feet in a yard, god knows how many yards in a mile (both of them)

10mm in 1cm, 100cm in a 1m, 1000m in a 1km