Is it possible to have CDU Fuel Management in metric units?
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First off, this is an outstanding plane, absolutely love it and looking forwards to many flights to come, thanks for all the effort and work that went into this.
My question is can the FUEL management (all screens really) be switched to metric Kg/L or was the software just designed for the US and it wasn't a switchable option somewhere?
Any help is appreciated.
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The software was just designed for the US, I'm afraid. I've added support for European pilots in places where I knew there was a solution for aircraft with the same avionics (like the RTU's in the T-1A with 8.33kHz spacing), but not elsewhere. Obviously, I would want to change a lot of things in the cockpit to all work in the same units (fuel LCD's, MFD Progress, many CDU pages), but I will consider this for a future update. Right now, I suppose the tablet's payload interface could be used to give you all the numbers in lbs without having to do any conversions yourself.
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Thank you for your response, Nick.
As you say, the workaround is to flip the tablet into LBS to provide the values to plug into the onboard avionics. Preserving history would keeps things as they are in real life and it's not that much of a hardship to use the tablet as a workaround.
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Just out of curiosity - The 8.33 capability of the RTUs is real? I thought you added that as an enabler to use the virtual Starship in European airspace (same as the cabin temparatur display in °C)
Regarding the weight units - In fact there are many European operators that use lbs instead of kg in their avionics, simply because the avionics don't support any other weight units. It is the de-facto standard in larger GA planes worldwide (think older Citations, 525, 550, 750, etc. or Learjets). I even know of one European airline operator that operates their aircraft in lbs, becuase they got the planes used from somewhere else and changing old avionics is costly.
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I guess with tablets to do the conversion these days then it's no big deal.
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Just out of curiosity - The 8.33 capability of the RTUs is real? I thought you added that as an enabler to use the virtual Starship in European airspace (same as the cabin temparatur display in °C)
Regarding the weight units - In fact there are many European operators that use lbs instead of kg in their avionics, simply because the avionics don't support any other weight units. It is the de-facto standard in larger GA planes worldwide (think older Citations, 525, 550, 750, etc. or Learjets). I even know of one European airline operator that operates their aircraft in lbs, becuase they got the planes used from somewhere else and changing old avionics is costly.
@topfen One of the Starship owners was surprised too, but it's actually a feature on the identical RTU's in the T-1A Jayhawk, which is the military variant of a BeechJet 400A.
