January 16, 201115 yr The Altimeter has a potentially serious issue, that I hope will be fixed.The "thousands digit" does not roll over, but flips...As a result, you can be flying along, thinking you are at 2000 feetwhereas you are actually at 3000 feet, see the attached screenshot (standby altimeteron the far right tells the story).As a comparison, I am including a picture of the RealAir Duke altimeter rollingover from 1900 to 2000 feet. This is the way a real gauge behaves. Bert
January 16, 201115 yr Commercial Member I've noticed that too, Bert. It's a little (okay, a lot) disconcerting when you're trying to reach cruise altitude and hold there. The numbers should definitely roll, not flip. Bill Womack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit my FS Blog or follow me on Twitter (username: bwomack). Intel i7-950 OC to 4GHz | 6GB DDR3 RAM | Nvidia GTX460 1gb | 2x 120GB SSDs | Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
January 16, 201115 yr Author I've noticed that too, Bert. It's a little (okay, a lot) disconcerting when you're trying to reach cruise altitude and hold there. The numbers should definitely roll, not flip.I've submitted this to Carenado support - lets see what they say :( Bert
January 16, 201115 yr Soon as I saw this I went for the lateral thinkers approach and noted that the small red arrow hand thingie instantly lets you know if you're close to flipping over or not. As a result I haven't allowed this 'bug' to interfere with my flying enjoyment one bit.
January 16, 201115 yr Author Soon as I saw this I went for the lateral thinkers approach and noted that the small red arrow hand thingie instantly lets you know if you're close to flipping over or not. As a result I haven't allowed this 'bug' to interfere with my flying enjoyment one bit.Not sure I understand you... what altitude would you say we are flying at here? Bert
January 16, 201115 yr Well I guess I normally retain a good knowledge of where my aircraft is at at all times, as any good safe aviator should.
January 16, 201115 yr Thats not the point, of course we can still figure our actual altitude, but the altimeter is still incorrectly modeled. Ty J. Peres - KBZN
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