Why not switch from miles to feet once you are under 1/10th of a mile?
That's what my Garmin does.

BTW: I used the AltosDroid software for the first time last week. The
software itself met my expectations. I was a little surprised that it
didn't scan for active units and that I had to pick a channel and know the
call sign of the unit I wanted to monitor(maybe I just didn't see the right
option though).  I was disappointed that my tablet couldn't seem to get a
GPS lock(not AltosDroid's fault) so I had to transfer the coordinates to my
Garmin. I never saw the rocket after apogee. It landed about 1/2 mile away,
but without the TM I wouldn't have had a clue where to start looking. With
the GPS coordinates we drove right to it a couple minutes after it landed.


Chris

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote:

> W7AMI <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Would it be possible to change the way distance is reported in
> > AltosDroid?   Currently it reports in Meters for the Metric system and
> > Miles in Imperial units.    Tenths of a mile is a fairly large unit so
> > there is quite a bit of ambiguity as to how far it is to the rocket when
> > recovering it.   Would it be possible to have the units automatically
> > switch from Miles/Meters when the distance to the rocket is less than
> > half a mile or 1 km?
>
> Yeah, I got started trying that a few months ago and didn't get it
> finished. I've added a ticket to our bug system to encourage me to
> finish this up.
>
> --
> -keith
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