Such displays are most often the by-product of the in-flight entertainment systems. The supplier is the one to right to if you want to get to the source.
Marion Moon ------ Original Message ------ Received: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:14:31 AM PST From: "Baron Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:36173] RE: Altitude display in intercontinental flights Pierre, The aircraft would have been flown at a Flight Level (constant barometric setting in the altimeter). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level For a reasonable explanation what Flight Level means. Baron Carter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: Wednesday, 01 March, 2006 08:44 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:36172] Altitude display in intercontinental flights On the flight to and from Brazil, there's a display that shows the speed, outside temperature, altitude, and time and maps at various scales. The altitude is converted to feet, rounded to the nearest 1000, and converted to meters without rounding, which gives a false sense of precision. (At one point it was showing 9144 m for several minutes.) I wrote to Continental, but received no response (nor did I get one to my message about orange juice - on one of the flights, but not the others, it was fake). Should I rather write to Boeing? phma
