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Altimeter problem

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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

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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.

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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

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.

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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

Well I guess I normally retain a good knowledge of where my aircraft is at at all times, as any good safe aviator should.

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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