Timeline for Why is the B737 altitude display unneccessarily ambiguous?
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| Jul 31, 2019 at 16:42 | comment | added | Jens | Please see edit to OP for a video. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 7:26 | comment | added | Jens | @Dave thanks, yes with this style seen in the video as also mentioned by Tanner Swett it is much better and behaves more like you would with such a number ticker. I'll add a video later when I get home to illustrate how it looks in FSX. Any chance something like this was changed or updated in the real cockpit in the last 15 years? :-) | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 1:13 | comment | added | Dave | @TannerSwett here is a video of it in operation, it does not tick over that hard youtube.com/watch?v=kFxfy5wQsq0 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 1:08 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | So with the altimeter pictured in your answer, does the hundreds place “tick over abruptly” when you go from, say, 9,999 feet to 10,000 feet? If so, is there any way for the pilot to distinguish between 9,900 and 9,999 at a glance? If it doesn’t “tick over abruptly” like the glass altimeter in the simulator does, then I don’t think this answers the question. | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 22:47 | comment | added | Michael Hall | Too accurate in my opinion. I favor a round dial altimeter specifically because of this. Anything less that spot on gets rounded down, and at first glance you may think you are a thousand feet off. | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 21:49 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |