A question of height

[Loco-S]

Check your reading skills.

Originally Posted by Loco-S View Post
Over the years I have noted that the altitudes (edit=Wonderwoman view) given are relative to the terrain, not indicated altitude, check it out while landing, the altimeter will tell you the altitude over sea level, the "speed bar" will give you the altitude over the terrain.

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

That isn't true in my experience, I've crashed into the ground with a non-zero height in the speed bar many times, and quite often taken off from a height of 200 (metres I believe), in the speed bar. I don't usually use the altimeter in the cockpit for my height. The heights in the text coming "over the radio" don't match the speed bar. The speed bar, as I understand it, is the three lines of text (height, speed and heading) in the lower left of the screen.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Loco-S

Check your reading skills.

As you can see from this thread, I read your post before you edited in the "wonder woman" bit. Without that hint, I took the "no cockpit" view to mean the chase (F2) view. I still read the red bit as saying something I don't see, it may be that changes in the wonder-woman view.

@ adapted.cat I like that post. That does make some sense of what I was seeing, I don't remember what it was that I saw that well but I remember it not being right, and it's interesting that 350 metres is reported on the radio as 350 feet.