Inflight Wind Data

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Inflight Wind Data

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JaDa	J JaDa posted 2 days ago @ 6:55 AM Topic Details Share Topic
J Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 0	Hi all, I just would like to know if it's possible to have the wind data that SD displays inflight rounded up or down to whole numbers? Being shown "270/3.2" is just hard to decipher (due to the very small font) and makes processing unnecessarily complicated. Many thanks for any hints, David
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KimW	K KimW posted 2 days ago @ 8:02 PM Post Details Share Post
K Group: Forum Members Posts: 45, Visits: 0	+x JaDa - 6/2/2025 6:55:44 AM Hi all, I just would like to know if it's possible to have the wind data that SD displays inflight rounded up or down to whole numbers? Being shown "270/3.2" is just hard to decipher (due to the very small font) and makes processing unnecessarily complicated. Many thanks for any hints, David Wind arrow gives quick reference. Click on field to display relative headwind or crosswind components. Reference wind arrows displayed on map Reference METAR in weather tab. Using a larger screen device is also an option. Plenty of options I think.
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JaDa	J JaDa posted 2 days ago @ 8:19 PM Post Details Share Post
J Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 0	Many thanks for your reply Kim! A bigger display isn’t unfortunately an option in my present cockpit. Still find it a bit unnecessary having wind speed shown down to decimal points (never needed wind speed SO precise in either my military or commercial cockpits to date — SD users must be extremely exact pilots! ;-) Otherwise I’d like to forward this as a suggestion to the programmers – please just round the numbers up or down in this box. Thank you
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted Yesterday @ 8:45 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.3K	It's a decent suggestion, but it's worked that way for a very long time and the first time (I think) that anyone has mentioned a problem with it. So we wouldn't change it lightly. So to be clear, you do want to see the wind (as you've turned on the instrument) but you want the text to be bigger?
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JaDa	J JaDa posted Yesterday @ 9:17 AM Post Details Share Post
J Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 0	+x Tim Dawson - 6/3/2025 8:45:51 AM It's a decent suggestion, but it's worked that way for a very long time and the first time (I think) that anyone has mentioned a problem with it. So we wouldn't change it lightly. So to be clear, you do want to see the wind (as you've turned on the instrument) but you want the text to be bigger? Hi Tim. Just getting rid of the decimal place would be an improvement in legibility. I mean, honestly, who cares if the wind is 3 knots or 3.2 knots inflight. Round numbers just makes the output easier to assimilate. The text itself does not need to be bigger. Thanks for thinking about it in any case.
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