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Vertical Speed Tag Item


Jonas Eberle
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Jonas Eberle
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Which unit is the Vertical Speed Tag Item in?

 

I found it shows about 2.2 x the value in ft/min.

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Ross Carlson
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I am not a definitive source, so take this as a guess, but is it meters/min?

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Todor Atanasov 878664
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It is feet/min but because it is calculated from the altitude report and there is no time-stamp when that altitude was taken it is not very accurate.

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Jonas Eberle
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I used the Tag Item "Vertical Speed" from TagItems.dll of Oliver Grützmann (http://board.vacc-sag.org/129/40907/) to compare the values.

 

The TagItems.dll's values seem correct, while the standard Tag Item values are quite constant at a factor of 2.2 higher. I verified the correctness by a stopwatch, also. Both values are also quite constant, no lag in there. I will ask Oliver Grützmann what he changed in his .dll.

 

I am curious why the standard differs. m/s would be ft/min divided by ~18, so that cannot be meant.

 

(PS: I am not using the TagItems.dll, because the Items do not react to the selected color/font in the Tag Setup - it always remains the main item color)

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Oliver Gruetzmann
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I use the given value and divide it by 200.

 

If you like, I can try 220, but I found / 200 very precise (I did it simpler: I asked pilots )

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