Change German & Russian cockpits to English

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Setting new course for off-topic discussion...

 

Are Imperial units the standard for commercial aviation? In all the sims I notice modern Russian (DCS) military jets have metric instruments but I don't see any commercial airliners (X-Plane, Boeing, Airbus) with metric. It would seem disastrous for commercial aircraft and ATC to not be standardized.

 

I don't know about the commercial side of things but the US military uses metric for just about everything, at least the Army does.The only thing I ran into that was imperial in the Army was the running distance standard for the PT test everything else form shooting measurements to road march distances was done in metric.

[Dakpilot]

There are plenty of chances for hiccups, when the manual is in Imp gallons, the fuel is sold in litres and you burn it at lbs an hour, add in a bit of language confusion with some places having ATC and Pilots speaking French and English at the same time on the frequency (both official aviation languages in certain regions)

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Raven_1964]

This may be of help to you:

 

The gauges on Soviet airplanes generally follow a convention across most planes, there are exceptions (it's Russian so of course there are exceptions) but you can mostly trust the standard. Water temp gauges, for example, almost always have a green ring around them and oil temp mostly have a red ring. Fuel gauges, generally, have a big yellow spot on them. If you know the IL2 well enough to recognize the gauges for the plane just by looking at them you can probably do the same in a Yak or a LAGG. I don't speak any German so I can't say if the same is true for the other side, but I suspect that it is based on what I have seen in their cockpits.

 

Thank you for this information.