Hi all,Does anyone know if there is a gauge that displays landing distance? I took a look into the SDK and it should be possible to do, but my work just doesn't allow for too many side projects. My other idea would be a "cranky instructor" gauge or add on. If you fly outside the airplane parameters you get a snippy comment and if you land hard you get a good telling off.Happy landings, real and not so real.

The GPS will tell you your distance from a waypoint. Press the direct-to button, and program in the airport identifier as the waypoint.The other take on your question could be that you are asking how to find out how long the runway is at the airport you are landing at. This information is again available from the GPS.That answer your question?

Sadly the GPS gives distances in nm and to try short landings in a C152 its a bit too coarse. The idea is a recording of the distance you roll from touchdown to full stop to give you a sense of distance on short field landings.

Oh I understand now, thanks. A quick and dirty way to estimate the distance your aircraft rolls out on landing is to use the touchdown zone markers, which are spaced 500' apart. Other than that I personally don't know of any specific gauge that measures the distance the airplane rolls out after touchdown.

I still don't fully understand the question.Is it: a gauge that shows the number of meters since touchdown (the counter is reset to zero at touchdown) ??And if so, should the counter measure:- at any time, the distance between the current point and the touchdown point ?or- the distance travelled since touchdown ?(if you see the difference)If you contact me at:[email protected]'ll have a go at it this weekend.Cheers, Rob

Logically, it should be the first AND the second as the rollout is only a proportion of the total field distance. It would be useful to be able to set it to start from a chosen AGL, for example 50 feet, so you could repeat the experiment with a variety of landing speeds and in a range of configurations. You could then compare landing more slowly with a high alpha before loading the mainwheels for braking, versus landing slightly faster but getting on the brakes sooner, etc. Certainly this would make the gauge more useful for the Big Stuff rather than just GA.Short field flying requires accurate speed control as the distance travelled per second at flying speed is, of course, greater than at taxi speed. So it would be very useful to have a gauge that could be used to measure not just the rollout, but also the EFFECT of adding a couple of knots to the approach.Would make for an interesting mornings flying actually, as this is one area where only test pilots go in the real thing. RW pilots are positively discouraged from ignoring the manual and making up their own rules!What a great suggestion! :)Allcott

Ok, I might as well make it a generic distance calculator then..- A toggleable display with three functions: - Current Distance to "point-0" - Travelled Distance from "point-0" - Reset Altitude (= Radio Altitude)- Units can be toggled between feet, meter, Km and Nmile- When the display shows ResetAltitude, clicking it in/decrements the ResetAlt in steps of 5 ft.- When the display shows Current/Travelled distance: clicking it sets "point-0" to the current position.- When the aircraft passed the ResetHeight (in either direction), "point-0" is automatically set to this position.This will also make the gauge useable:- to measure distance in the air- to measure distances in the scenery (eg. using Slew), like runway length/width, pushback distances, etc.Oh my... I'm getting carried away again ...Will this do :-) ???Rob

Great feature list. It could certainly help in the areas of scenery design and afcad checkout, and even operations due to the difference between real visual depth and FS viewing. It would also help to create some ground performance tables where they are not available.

I have a 1979 Cessna 152 PIM, I might be able to scan you the table and email it. Do you know how to interpolate? ----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

In fact I have it working now as advertised in a previous reply.So if anyone is interested in testing it, contact me via EmailCheers, Rob

Thanks a lot for all the replies. Specially to you Rob. I think you're working on quite a usefull little tool!Best regards,Michael

Hi,If someone wants to try it out: I attached the gauge to this post.See included readme in the zip.Cheers, Rob

Many thanks, Rob, for this and all your work. This will be very useful.Best regards.Luis

Hi Luis,You're welcome ...And for other readers of this thread:The gauge is ATTACHED to post #11. (just click on "attachment" at the end of that post).I already has 10+ Email requests to Email the gauge, but people don't seem to realise that it's right under their nose here in the forum :-)Cheers, Rob

Rob,How come Microsoft haven't snapped you up on their pay-roll? :-) Right, should I do another quick lap of the old Nurburgring circuit with 'GT4' or go flying?Dave T.