It feels like it could be a good idea to use the same type of measurement. Its kinda hard to run a formation when someone uses ft for altitude and mp/h for speed while someone else uses m and km/h. My choice would be m for altitude and km/h for speed but thats because ft and mp/h makes absolutly no sense to me.
I would agree... except our US population is a about half of the players, if not a bit more... I think. Metric for the win! Submit!
Doing survey flying I have often had to fly in meters because of a canadian built laser system I used to fly, and while it can be a pain to have to constantly convert its totally doable. For me the one I have the hardest time with in the game is kph, after hundreds and hundreds of hours flying my brain thinks in knots/mph knowing what part of the flight envelope the aircraft is in and how it can be expected to perform based on that speed. With kph I'm just at a loss as to how fast my plane really is going. The weird part is I have no issue with driving in kph, I guess enough time spent outside the us has me conditioned for it but put me in a plane and it all goes out the window. one of those times I'm glad that the for international aviation standard is english, ft, and mph (well knots, but fairly close to mph).
Isn't the display in the game in metric units? If so it is probably just us American heathens saying MPH when what we are REALLY looking at is KPH. hahaha.
no you can change it to MPH I have. I use ft. I use US measurements for everthing (though it does somewhat screw with the guns convergence thing because that is only in meters). I kinda hope they add knots as a measurement of speed to this game because I thing every current airforce uses knots now as well as whatever their nation uses. Actually I think they will have to add it because I think all navies everywhere (well most at least) use knots for the speed of the ship. I don't think a single one uses mph or kph for speed of ships.
i know most use ft but iif you say 5000 ft i have no idea of how high i actually am (i know that 5000m is somewhere around 16 000 and 17 000ft). When someone says miles i think about 10km as that is what 1 mile is for us not that weird amount you have. and its weird cause my poll have disappeared.
yep knots are used internationally both in shipping and aviation (and naval of course). So why don't they add that? (I know that in the 40s knots were not used internationally but still there is accuracy then there is just using something everyone uses). It does make more sense to use knots for both because of aircraft carriers. You are on the same measurement of speed. It is interesting that the 3 holdouts to accept the international nautical mile measurement were the U.S., U.K. and the Soviet Union.
In Aviation across the world feet is used for altitude and to me, it makes no sense to use cross standards.
I don't mind switching my altitude to feet, but I'm sticking to Kilometres if I can for distances/speed.
Speaking as one of the US heathens... I use m and km/h. All this feet and mile and mph shit messes me up
reading just the title i half expected this to be an e-penis thread Back to topic: Metrics; Mph and ft make absolutely no sense to me. Mixing ft with kph makes me want to burn people at a stake .
What always confused me (somewhat) is how they used kph or mph (depending on nation) but then for range to target they used meters or yards but this game doesn't. I mean when you are oh five miles out it makes sense to say miles but in the metric it doesn't really matter they can still easily say 5 thousand meters to target.
