Thank you! The altimeter display is based on this: https://github.com/uncia-dev/Skyhawk-Flight-Instruments
If I ever go that I high I need a smart altimeter which pops up an O2 reminder
How do you use it. All I see is a picture of an altimeter.
There's a text box below it. You read the altimeter, enter the altitude in the box, then hit Enter or click OK.
Do you think going in larger increments would help? Maybe 20 or 100 feet? It wouldn't be hard to make it configurable by the user.
I do that but nothing happens. What's strange is that if I close it and hit the link again in your op, post#1, a different altitude shows. Repeat that and a different altitude shows. It keeps opening with a random altitude with no correlation to what I entered.
You read the altitude it's showing. It picks a random one each time so you can't just memorize the altitudes it gives.
Oh. So it's testing you to see if you read it right. I was thinking you'd enter an altitude and it would show you what it looks like.
Hey now, just because you got one wrong Mark...
Exactly. It chooses a random altitude from 0 to 18,000 feet in ten foot increments, and you enter what it shows into the box.
It does go in ten foot increments, and there is no margin of error allowed. I'm planning to add some settings to it; I'll add the ability to give some margin.Hey now, just because you got one wrong Mark...
I was wondering how accurate you had to be, like if there was some slop in the answers, but it seems pretty discrete 10 ft increments. Which I think is fine, after all, you're sitting on the ground, you should be able to tell the difference!
I don't think that's necessary or worth the effort - just add some instructions that say "enter the altitude shown (10 ft increments)" or something like that.
Thanks for the suggestion! I am going to add that as well. So far that's my most popular feature request; someone on another site already mentioned thatYou should include negative altitudes for those who fly out of TRM, BWC, and some airports in Israel!
I had the same thought. Hundreds is really the least-significant digit I care about when flying. When I look at the altimeter in the airplane I'm thinking, "I'm higher than 2,500ft, go down a little." I've never felt the urge to say, "I'm at 2,530 ft." I guess that would be useful for setting the altimeter on the ground without using local pressure.
I agree in most real life flying, BUT - this is obviously a training aid for someone at the very, very beginning of their aviation education. Somebody who has never seen an altimeter before. And they should learn what the small marks mean, so they know whether they are important or not. I mean, you need to KNOW something first before you can decide it's okay to ignore it.
That's a good idea! I'll add it in my settings.
It's for practicing how to read altimeters.
I imagine it's harder to read an altimeter in a plane than on a computer or phone on the ground? It's quite feasible to read in 10 foot increments; I can do it quite reliably now after some practice on this.
Exactly. I wrote this because I was having a hard time reading the altimeter in my flight simulator (Piper Cherokee in FlightGear) and wanted a way to practice just the altimeter. While anyone is certainly welcome to use it, I doubt those who are already pilots would learn much if anything from using it. I just posted here to get feedback on it (which I definitely have, thank you everyone!), not because I thought it would be useful for already-certified pilots.
If your concern on meeting the check ride standard is accurately reading the altimeter, rather than properly performing the maneuver, then I don't know what to think. Nevertheless, it's about the needle being in about the right place, no?
In the new settings, you can set a margin for error.
You can change the min and max altitudes in settings now, and it does support negative altitudes.You should include negative altitudes for those who fly out of TRM, BWC, Death Valley, and Israel!
That's also an option now.
I think the small increments is the source of the priblem some have been having. i ran into the same issue. 20, which would show the altimeter on the lines would probably help a lot.
Unfortunately I don't have a Mac to test on. Could you please send a screenshot of what it does on Safari?
It's actually working now. sorry.
What did it do the first time?
I think perhaps I misunderstood what it was supposed to do the first time I tried with safari.
