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Ground speed reporting


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Neil Rankin
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Hello 
I have what I hope should be a relatively straight forward enhancement. 
I like many people fly different types of aircraft some report speed in MPH, others in KNOTS, even some maybe in KPH
While I realize you can change the units in the setup menu to whatever you need 

(1) The GS display at the top of the screen does NOT report the unit you have selected
(the only way to know is to go back into the setup menu to check ?) 

(2) What also would be useful as part of the above is to be able to toggle the units by tapping the GS display
(like you do for DST NXT/END and ALT/HT)

Many thanks Neil

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Sky Painter - 11/15/2019 1:18:58 PM
emporer - 11/14/2019 11:55:16 PM
Since we touched the topic of ambiguity there is another suggestion:
The white line extending from the airplane has 3 tic-marks. 
Sometimes I can't recall if I defined it as time or distance line.
 
So I propose the following :
Add the symbol d=distance or t=time at the white line with a circle around it,
depending on the configuration in setup.
When Tapping the circle the tic-mark revert to either time or distance markings with proper scaling and t/d-letter.
In flight, sometimes I prefer to quickly change between time and distance and going in the setup menu is cumbersome.
How do the others feel about this?

As has already been pointed out, this has been discussed in some detail previously, and since there was no consensus, the suggestion never so the light of day. I have my Aircraft Trajectory Display set to 'time' permanently, but I must admit that there have been occasions when I would like to have had the ability to be able to toggle it between time and distance and back again with one touch. If the suggestion were to be implemented, since the last tick is already effectively a 'T' this configuration should represent 'time' and when toggled to 'distance' the last tick should change, for example, to an arrow head, or circle maybe.

This will make sense for me, as for position reporting to ATC prior entering CTR is (normaly) done in NM but advising smaller airfields of approach is done in minutes.

GO

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NeilR - 11/13/2019 9:24:52 AM
efrenken - 11/13/2019 9:33:39 PM
NeilR - 11/13/2019 9:44:33 PM
Sky Painter - 11/14/2019 11:32:52 AM
Tim Dawson - 11/14/2019 12:55:19 PM
             Both Tim. Thanks.
Sky Painter - 11/14/2019 4:53:55 PM
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emporer - 11/14/2019 11:38:08 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/14/2019 6:36:56 PM
Sky Painter - 11/15/2019 12:55:57 PM
ArnaudC - 11/26/2019 7:35:15 PM
efrenken - 11/14/2019 9:38:56 PM
emporer - 11/14/2019 11:55:16 PM
grahamb - 11/15/2019 12:22:04 AM
tnowak - 11/15/2019 8:04:07 AM
Sky Painter - 11/15/2019 1:18:58 PM
David N. - 11/15/2019 2:25:13 PM
efrenken - 11/15/2019 10:04:03 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/18/2019 12:20:46 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/27/2019 12:39:50 PM

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