Christian Mayer wrote:
> And there are already 1.5 - 2 FDMs that use SI units (BalloonSim and
> much more important YASim).

Woo hoo!  Just a few short months in the source tree and already YASim
is *much* more important than BaloonSim.  World domination, here I
come!

As far as the SI vs. English units go, I restate my declared
neutrality.  While doing calculations *in* SI units is much safer and
easier, I also see the advantages to representing them externally in
traditional units.  Typical (North American, anyway) altimeters still
report feet, VSI indicators read in fpm, etc...  Panel authors are in
a poorer position to do the conversion than the FDM folks are.

Andy

-- 
Andrew J. Ross                NextBus Information Systems
Senior Software Engineer      Emeryville, CA
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 - Sting (misquoted)


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