PLEASE add KM/H

[hybrid oar]

How else would I understand how fast my plane is going guys

[covert nova]

with m/s

just remember 343 m/s is around mach 1 (depending if you're at sea level)

[hybrid oar]

900 m/s is like 2000 kmh i thought i was going fast but i realised i was going faster

[hybrid oar]

that's sea level, i fly at 12k m

[covert nova]

I just remember that it's around mach 3

or you can just remember the conversion ratio

[hybrid oar]

no i am not that smart i just do coding

[covert nova]

1 m/s = 3.6 kph, you can call it 4 for the sake of mental math

[hybrid oar]

half of my brain is already used to its limit and dead

[covert nova]

1 km/s = 4,000 kph then

[hybrid oar]

k per hour??

[covert nova]

my guy you just multiply by 3.6 (approximated to 4)

[hybrid oar]

oh seconds and hours thing

[covert nova]

no it's already adjusting for that

[hybrid oar]

i learned that in 6th grade or something

lmao, i'll try i guess

[covert nova]

just google "m/s to <unit>" and it'll give the conversion ratio

[hybrid oar]

ok but its easier in code why don't they just do that

[covert nova]

because that's the SI unit

[hybrid oar]

if button = true speed = speed * 3.6

pseudo code btw

[covert nova]

yes I know

[hybrid oar]

i am going to fly a plane, why does that have to be science

[covert nova]

because it's a game about science

[hybrid oar]

does ksc not have a plane division

alright im just trolling

it would just be easier to understand for casual gamers you know

just opinion brother

[covert nova]

This was brought up in the thread to add imperial units: having multiple units of velocity will be confusing online. People will say "you need 4000 km/h of delta v". Then people would have to calculate how much that is in the unit system they configured

[hybrid oar]

imperial is just stupid

[covert nova]

I'm not going to get into that debate. My point is the same argument applies

[hybrid oar]

but having a feature to convert seconds to k hours

nvm

bye

[keen cedar]

m/s

its simple, basically 1 m/s means you go a meter a second

[hybrid oar]

does your car or your f16 say 1200 m/s

[keen cedar]

my car dont go that fast

no cars go mach 4 im sorry

do you know the metric system?

[hybrid oar]

yes i'm not american

[keen cedar]

good

[hybrid oar]

i'm from euro

[keen cedar]

so you understand m/s automatically

problem solved

[hybrid oar]

balls

[flint plaza]

Planes use aviation units, so knots and nautical miles for distance; feet per minute and feet for altitude.

[mighty cloud]

It shouldnt be that hard for the devs to put it in bruh

Quality of life n all that

[hybrid oar]

only americans

[covert nova]

you do realize that aviation is quite literally one of the most international industries, right?

[flint plaza]

As well as Europe, Australia, India, Japan, etc. The notable exceptions that use metric for those measurements are Russia, China and CIS countries.

[magic pulsar]

*at sea level

mach is a gradient

[flint prism]

@rustic pollen , could you add a units option to Micro Engineer that would allow players to see speeds in kph and/or mach number (in in atmo?)

The OP here is right, the conversion is easier in code. We can do mental math and work it out, but why not make life easier?

[hybrid oar]

yeah, QoL improvement

[rustic pollen]

There's already a mach number entry in Micro Engineer. As for km/h, uh, err... well sure, if somebody would find that interesting 🙂

[lunar solstice]

m/s is actually kinda easier for most things

[flint prism]

Maybe km/h is easier for some rover drivers?

I could see it being useful with aircraft too, though in most any other circumstance I’d prefer m/s.

Docking, for example - I personally prefer m/s there. Same with landing.

[rustic pollen]

Ask, and ye shall receive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4lA3Oc46M
(excuse the poor quality, I'm on vacation so I'm playing on a potato)

Mechanism for getting "km/h" will be double-clicking on an entry that displays a speed.

Update is not out yet, I need to complete some things first.

[rustic pollen]

Micro Engineer 1.3.0

• Double-clicking a speed entry changes to an alternate unit (km/h)
  https://spacedock.info/mod/3282/Micro Engineer/download/1.3.0
  @hybrid oar

[mighty cloud]

Yass i like

I know how fast 20kmh is but 3.6m/s is a lot of quickmaths