airfield elevation doesn't seem correct...

[fitness88]

The airfield elevations don't match up from what the cockpit reads and from what the kneeboard runways indicate. On the runway the cockpit seems to always indicates 880 feet elevation in the F-15 however when looking at the runway charts the elevations are very different.

Anyone have this figured out?

 

 

Thank you.

[Rangi]

Which map/airfield, or do you mean all airfields?

[fitness88]

Which map/airfield, or do you mean all airfields?

 

 

 

Sit on the runway at Sochi and you will see 880 elev. then look at the map of the Sochi airfield.

[Scotch75]

I think the map may have a typo and show the elevation in meters instead of feet. I reported this for dcs 2.0. Nellis AFB actual elevation is about 1830 feet or there abouts, but map (F10) shows 1830 meters when you click on the airfield icon. A correct QNH setting was consistent with elevation in feet.

 

 

Edit: I have just looked up the elevation of Nellis, it is 1867 feet. I am sure the F10 map says 1867 meters.

 

Cheers

 

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Edited March 27, 2017 by Scotch75
Actual values

[Ironhand]

Sit on the runway at Sochi and you will see 880 elev. then look at the map of the Sochi airfield.

Sitting at Sochi, mine shows 100 feet. Map reads 32 meters (98 feet).

[fitness88]

I think the map may have a typo and show the elevation in meters instead of feet. I reported this for dcs 2.0. Nellis AFB actual elevation is about 1830 feet or there abouts, but map (F10) shows 1830 meters when you click on the airfield icon. A correct QNH setting was consistent with elevation in feet.

 

 

Edit: I have just looked up the elevation of Nellis, it is 1867 feet. I am sure the F10 map says 1867 meters.

 

Cheers

 

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No that wasn't it, the kneeboard airfield had both feet and meters.

[fitness88]

Sitting at Sochi, mine shows 100 feet. Map reads 32 meters (98 feet).

 

 

Thanks Ironhand,

I noticed this at Anapa [148 ft./45 m.] and 1 other airfield, both the HUD and gauge read 880 feet. I will do another flight and check again.

 

 

Also would you know if the F-15 2 clock functions work start/stop/reset?

 

"LShift - T" Elapsed Time Clock Start/Stop/Reset

 

"RShift - C" Flight Clock Start/Stop/Reset

Edited March 27, 2017 by fitness88

[fitness88]

All is good now...thanks for the confirmation.

Might have been a one-off glitch.

[Ironhand]

All is good now...thanks for the confirmation.

Might have been a one-off glitch.

Does this statement include the clock? Because on my end those functions don't work. The clock moves but there's no hint of a reset, etc. And does the F-15 even have a "flight clock" to reset? I see the sweep hands of what might be the elapsed time clock (which won't move with either of those commands). But there's no hint of a separate flight clock unless that's the function of the main clock, too.

 

These functions do work in the Flanker. But not in the F-15 as far as I can tell.

[Sweep]

You can't set the Eagle's altimeter unfortunately. That causes a lot of these problems...

[fitness88]

Does this statement include the clock? Because on my end those functions don't work. The clock moves but there's no hint of a reset, etc. And does the F-15 even have a "flight clock" to reset? I see the sweep hands of what might be the elapsed time clock (which won't move with either of those commands). But there's no hint of a separate flight clock unless that's the function of the main clock, too.

 

These functions do work in the Flanker. But not in the F-15 as far as I can tell.

 

 

 

It was intended to have a reset clock as per the shortcuts above unless those shortcuts were intended for a different model and should not have been included for the F-15 key commands.

[fitness88]

You can't set the Eagle's altimeter unfortunately. That causes a lot of these problems...

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure what that was about but it corrected itself the next day. The altimeter was stuck on both the HUD and the cockpit gauge at 880 for a few airfields.