4.14 Release

[baball]

Originally Posted by -)-MAILMAN-

- On the F4F-3 plane, the speed indicator was fixed, now it shows speed in mph instead of the previous knots.

Why did it need to be fixed?
It was already correct when it was indicating KNOTS.
This was a USN Naval Plane and the speed indicators were in Knots. USN navigates using nautical miles. Because the Marines were part of the Department of the Navy their equipment was the same. The USN and USMC aircraft differed from the USAAF which used MPH because they were not navigating to find USN Carriers which plot courses using nautical miles and speed of advance in KNOTS.

Additonally with the 4.14m patch the speed indicators also changed to MPH in:

F4F-4
FM-2
Corsair I (F4U-1)
Corsair II
Corsair IV
F4U-1A
F4U-1C
F4U-1D
F6F-3 Late
F6F-5

You can verify that all of them got changed by comparing it to the speed bar. For simplicity sake you can check it with the speed indicator needle at 200. The speed bar matches it with 200 MPH. Before "this patch" the speed bar would match the gage with 200 Knots IAS. The speed indicator gages are off by 30 KIAS.

Only the F2A-2, SBD-3 and SBD-5 have speed indicators operating correctly in KNOTS.

I have the Pilot operating instruction manuals for all of the above planes and the speed indicator is supposed to be in KNOTS (KIAS).

Don't worry, that's actually a typo from the Readme, the units have been reversed. I've noticed this bug during beta testing, and the F4F's airspeed indicator does display knots instead of mph after corrections.

[stovak]

Originally Posted by baball

Don't worry, that's actually a typo from the Readme, the units have been reversed. I've noticed this bug during beta testing, and the F4F's airspeed indicator does display knots instead of mph after corrections.

It's not just the ReadMe though, it's an in-game observation. All of the F4s are displaying mph in the released version. The F6s do appear to be in knots.

Note the dial indicates '160' while the speed bar shows 160 in Mph and 140 in Knots.

[baball]

Originally Posted by stovak

It's not just the ReadMe though, it's an in-game observation. All of the F4s are displaying mph in the released version. The F6s do appear to be in knots.

That's really strange, because I compared the IAS to the one indicated (in km/h) on the DebugFM console during the bug testing phase of the beta and that's when I found out it was in mph instead of knots. Later betas and RCs had corrected indicated speed after that. That said, I'll check this later with one of the RC I still have installed on my PC.

[shelby]

Originally Posted by baball

That's really strange, because I compared the IAS to the one indicated (in km/h) on the DebugFM console during the bug testing phase of the beta and that's when I found out it was in mph instead of knots. Later betas and RCs had corrected indicated speed after that. That said, I'll check this later with one of the RC I still have installed on my PC.

it was a calibration bug in the DebugFM not in the airspeed indicator.

[baball]

Originally Posted by shelby

it was a calibration bug in DebugFM not in the airspeed indicator.

So, after firing up my RC4 install and doing a quick fly over Kuban at sea level, the IAS still reads in mph instead of knots even after it was supposed to be fixed in beta4.

https://imgur.com/LBu6u5d
https://imgur.com/HzQjNep

[shelby]

Originally Posted by baball

So, after firing up my RC4 install and doing a quick fly over Kuban at sea level, the IAS still reads in mph instead of knots even after it was supposed to be fixed in beta4.

https://imgur.com/LBu6u5d
https://imgur.com/HzQjNep

320 km/h=199 mph/h That is the speed the airspeed indicator shows
320 Km/h=173 knots That is speed the airspeed indicator sould show

[baball]

Originally Posted by shelby

320 km/h=199 mph/h That is the speed the airspeed indicator shows
320 Km/h=173 knots That is speed the airspeed indicator sould show

Yep, and it should be able to fly at around 370 km/h at 200 kt IAS and sea level.