Units like on the 1:1 Western aircraft instruments

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Units like on the 1:1 Western aircraft instruments #9417

Open dorovl opened 3 years ago

dorovl commented 3 years ago

If there is one thing I would really love, it would be to have the:

horizontal speeds in kts,
altitude in feets,
vertical speeds in ft/min or:
horizontal speeds in km/s,
altitude in feets,
vertical speeds in ft/min.

Indeed, most 1:1 aircrafts in Europe and the US are like this. Because altitude is in feets, it really makes sense to have the vertical speeds in ft/min to quickly calculate the start of descent time in minutes, with a very simple mental arithmetic.

Antiheavy commented 3 years ago

related feature request: https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol/issues/9337