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Q110837: Altimeter Does Not Display Meters

Article: Q110837
Product(s): Microsoft Home Games
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 07-MAY-2002

kbusage

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Flight Simulator for MS-DOS, version 5.0 
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SUMMARY
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When Units Of Measure is set to Metric(Alt Meters) the altimeter does NOT
display altitude in meters. (The Units Of Measure option is available by
clicking Preferences from the Options menu, and clicking Country.)

MORE INFORMATION
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When Units Of Measure is set to Metric(Alt Meters), all menus and dialog boxes
in Flight Simulator 5.0 will show altitude information in meters. For example,
altitudes for cloud layers will be shown in meters in the Clouds dialog box when
you click Weather from the World menu.

However, the altimeter always shows altitude in feet. In actual aviation
situations, altitude is always measured in feet regardless of the unit of
measurement commonly used in a country.

Additional query words: 5.00 flightsim fltsim dos FS5 kilometers

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbGamesSearch kbFlightSimSearch kbFlightSim500DOS kbSimSearch
Version           : MS-DOS:5.0
Issue type        : kbinfo

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