From: Roy V. O. <roy...@ha...> - 2007-02-25 19:53:30
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On Sunday 25 February 2007 06:30, Dave Perry wrote: > I want both John and Roy to try this patch before we consider submitting > it to cvs. Of course, anyone can try it and comment. I had a nice flight over Norway today from ENHD to ENTO. ATIS at ENHD told med that baro setting should be 29.50. So I set the altimeter and the KAP140 to that. I set the altitude preselect to 7000 ft and took off. The altitude was captured at approx. 6980 ft and settled at that altitude. A single press of the UP button took me upt to 7000 ft as indicated by the altimeter. Visiblility at ENTO was very bad, so I had to use ILS. In addition I was unable to head what the nice lady was saying in the ATIS at ENTO, so I didn't know what the altimeter setting should have been. The KAP140 steered me down towards the runway in approach mode. At the middle marker I disengaged the autopilot, still no runway visible through the fog. I continued down not knowing my altitude, when I see the blue ocean. Dang! I haven't downloaded the scenery for that part :-( -- Roy Vegard Ovesen |