David Megginson wrote: > > Currently, the environment subsystem manages the following properties: > > /environment/visibility-m > /environment/temperature-sea-level-degc > /environment/temperature-degc > /environment/pressure-sea-level-inhg > /environment/pressure-inhg > /environment/density-sea-level-slugft3 > /environment/density-slugft3 > /environment/wind-from-heading-deg > /environment/wind-speed-kt > /environment/wind-from-north-fps > /environment/wind-from-east-fps > /environment/wind-from-down-fps
Great that we've got a standard place for these properties now. But I'm really concerned that these values aren't in SI units. So most of the world (except the US and perhaps a few other countries) can't use those units anymore without big research (aks somebody around here what a 'slug' is... [*I* know it, but that doesn't count]). And there are already 1.5 - 2 FDMs that use SI units (BalloonSim and much more important YASim). If a FDM wants to use obscure units internally (e.g. because the developers are use to them) that's their choice. But when we have very universal data that a lot of people need (users, panel programmers, ...) we should use an international standard. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams would have been better... _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
