David Megginson writes: > I just squeezed in one little item I thought would be useful for the > release, since many aircraft do not have clickable panels. Ctrl-I now pops > up an instrument-settings dialog (also available from the menu bar) to > change the altimeter setting and adjust the heading indicator. > > For those of you flying with the live, METAR weather, you've probably > noticed that the altimeter is often off by hundreds or sometimes thousands > of feet. To fix that, as in real life, you need to do one of two things: > > 1. Get the altimeter setting from the ATIS and put it into your altimeter -- > this is the normal thing to do when you're airborne.
Ack - ATIS isn't giving the altimeter at the moment - I took it out since it was hardwired to 29.92. Is there a property or a function that I can use to get the current value, it would be easy to put in. Also - millibars or inches? Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
