* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Megginson) [2003.09.02 13:55]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Why don't we use SI Units in flightgear? > > > > Why unknown feets when meter is the international standard in this > > world? > > Ah, this is a long-standing thread. Personally, I'd love to use SI > internally, but for the user interface, we still need to use Imperial, > because that's what most of the aviation world uses. As far as I > know, even countries that use SI for some things (such as runway > length or altimeter setting) still use a lot of Imperial for flying, > including altitude and airspeed. > > One exception is temperature -- nearly everyone is using degC now for > aviation weather. > > By the way, I live in Canada, which is also a Metric country, so I > have to convert constantly between the liters I buy fuel in and the > U.S. gallons in my aircraft's published performance data. Even though > Canada switched to SI in the 1970's, however, we still give runway > length and altitude in feet, visibility in statute miles, and distance > in nautical miles. We give the altimeter setting primarily in inHg, > but the METAR includes the hPa setting in comments.
David, Should --units-meters affect the --ceiling option? I'm not sure what all the --units-* options are supposed to affect. -- Cameron Moore [ Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo! ] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
