You might put in a choice of 'Don't Care' for those who do not see it as important. Like those of us in the vast majority of the world that use Metric measurements.

its already in meet and meters, what else do you want? why would you need it to show miles?

Geebax Posted at 2016-7-19 21:02
You might put in a choice of 'Don't Care' for those who do not see it as important. Like those of us ...

Geebax im trying to ask dji to add this option for Imperial users. I wouldn't think that Metric users would want anything displayed in feet or miles.

tonyt76 Posted at 2016-7-19 21:16
Geebax im trying to ask dji to add this option for Imperial users. I wouldn't think that Metric us ...

i dont think they will add that. makes no sense if you think about it , feet and meters is perfect, just calculate it and thats it , people are more familiar with meters and feet, miles is for long distance flights...

picture this in your head you are flying and trying to record a video you need certain height to avoid obstacles and it display 0.043 miles  or something crazy like that and theres a huge building around you can not say oh i can avoid that with your bare eyes.      i dont know if i make the point clear but atleast in my head it makes sense

egconstruger@gm Posted at 2016-7-19 21:15
its already in meet and meters, what else do you want? why would you need it to show miles?

Why does Autel show distance in Miles in their app but DJI doesn't?

egconstruger@gm Posted at 2016-7-19 21:28
i dont think they will add that. makes no sense if you think about it , feet and meters is perfect ...

Please re-read the title. Im not asking for Miles to be added to anything but distance. Everything else should remain in feet.

i guess if the imperial system was as straight forward for converting fractions of length like the metric system it would be much easier to calculate

Jetboys Posted at 2016-7-19 22:03
i guess if the imperial system was as straight forward for converting fractions of length like the m ...

That's exactly why all the countries, except United States and Liberia, switched to or adopted metric system.

I really don't get the issues here.  Just use about 5000 feet per mile.  What's the issue?

DJI-H.C Posted at 2016-7-20 12:59
That's exactly why all the countries, except United States and Liberia, switched to or adopted metric ...

Metric is fine for me but it does raise the question as to why the speed is displayed as meters per second rather than km/h. We generally use km/h for metric speeds so it's  odd that the DJI Go App displays  drone speed as meters per second. It's not a terminogy that actually means anything to most owners whereas km/h makes perfect sense.

JockC Posted at 2016-7-20 21:15
Metric is fine for me but it does raise the question as to why the speed is displayed as meters per ...

Mmmm

Just checked in my car, the speedo is in mph

I am 5' 9" tall

- just saying

i think meters per second is the proper way to measure velocity. i could be wrong about that,,,,,,,,,

Jetboys Posted at 2016-7-20 12:39
i think meters per second is the proper way to measure velocity. i could be wrong about that,,,,,,,, ...

Actually, for aircraft, I thought it was knots.  

I'd like height to be in feet given its the standard in aviation in the UK

DJI-H.C Posted at 2016-7-19 20:59
That's exactly why all the countries, except United States and Liberia, switched to or adopted met ...

Actually, the problem in the US is not that they did not try.. but they never were able to go "cold turkey" on it... It is easy to just go to metric, the problem begins if you insist on running conversions.. conversions are a mistake.. just forget the imperial and go metric, no issues.. if u keep trying to convert, you will get confused.. but it is hard to escape conversions in a big country like this, because of all the industry and everything else already built in imperial.. even plumbing...  I do not think we gonna manage that change in the US.. we probably just gonna stay weird forever I come from Europe, and metric is so logical - even most Americans admit that the logic in metric is unbeatable... really? I need a 3/8ths of an inch drill bit? What the hell is that?

Nice! So it does tell u what number of pple voted, and what the % are! Hope this thread keeps going and we will see in a month or 2, what the outcome is!

I hope lots of people vote Yes and that DJI listens to their customers to make the DJI Go experience even better for us Imperial users!

JockC Posted at 2016-7-20 09:15
Metric is fine for me but it does raise the question as to why the speed is displayed as meters per ...

Probably because the height in meters, so it makes sense to measure vertical speed in m/s,  then to maintain consistency, horizontal speed is also measured in m/s.  Not really sure, just my guess.

"On a scale of 1 to 3, how far did you go?!"

Miles doesn't make sense to me on something that most people typically don't go past 1 of, but 3 is the max.

"I went 1 (using the feet indicator of about 2,500ft, does calculation of the fraction of a mile over, which means the setting didn't save brain use at all) and about a half!!"

Canadian personality here.  We have been using Metric for a long time.




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JockC Posted at 2016-7-20 15:15
Metric is fine for me but it does raise the question as to why the speed is displayed as meters per ...

To really be worthy an airship the speed should be shown in knots

tonyt76 Posted at 2016-7-19 22:29
Why does Autel show distance in Miles in their app but DJI doesn't?

Probably trying to cater to a US user base.
Rest of the world is metric.

jim.chisholm Posted at 2016-7-22 00:28
Probably trying to cater to a US user base.
Rest of the world is metric.

Well it's nine miles to Wolverhampton and 8 miles to Stafford from my house

- Just sayin'  

What's the use of miles? You'd never see more than 3 or 4.

sevadu Posted at 2016-7-21 23:58
What's the use of miles? You'd never see more than 3 or 4.

I never said they were any use

My Go app and Litch are set to metres

- just saying

It should be a option of Imperial or Metric.

I think I see what he's getting at.    On the total miles flown it has a total number of feet.   I've flown over 534,000 ft, which is roughly 101 miles.    That might be interesting to know in miles or km.

msduncanrolltid Posted at 2016-7-23 01:57
I think I see what he's getting at.    On the total miles flown it has a total number of feet.   I'v ...

I believe he wants to see the live current flight distance in miles instead of feet. Or when you hit 5,280ft it switches to miles.
At least I think that's what he's asking for. I'm fine showing feet. Now if I were flying many miles away I may want miles instead of feet but these aircraft won't go that far plus I have no reason to fly that far.

Option for Imperial and metric should please everyone, miles and feet doesn't tell me anything, I don't want to see that on my screen.

mikelt006@gmail Posted at 2016-7-23 04:17
Option for Imperial and metric should please everyone, miles and feet doesn't tell me anything, I do ...

I went under a railway bridge this morning at 20mph

It had two height signs on it

One in feet the other in metres

- just saying

DJI-Ken Posted at 2016-7-22 16:08
I believe he wants to see the live current flight distance in miles instead of feet. Or when you hi ...

DJI-Ken this is exactly what i'm asking, after 5,280ft out change distance from feet to miles.

Also please change the RTH altitude and Max flight altitude to feet when choosing Imperial.

Most of the DJI owners at Phantompilots.com and several facebook groups fly several miles away and this feature would be extremely useful to us.

Please also see this poll at Phantompilots.com

Click here

After awhile you adapt to seeing feet without the app converting to miles when you hit 1 mile.
But I wish (when using imperial) they would show maximum height and RTH altitude in feet also. Why convert everything but those fields? DJI should better coordinate their departments.
It would be nice to show miles when appropriate.

Rnfaust Posted at 2016-7-23 23:28
After awhile you adapt to seeing feet without the app converting to miles when you hit 1 mile.
But  ...

Thanks Rnfaust!

tonyt76 Posted at 2016-7-24 11:37
Thanks Rnfaust!

I'm driving to Norwich today

It's a journey of about 160 miles

I will look out for signs in kilometres

- just sayin'

@DJI-Ken 68 votes here and 50 at PhantomPilots. 118 people would like this feature added along with changing the RTH altitude and Max flight altitude to feet when choosing Imperial.

Please help us make this happen!

tonyt76 Posted at 2016-7-25 10:37
@DJI-Ken 68 votes here and 50 at PhantomPilots. 118 people would like this feature added along with  ...

They already know about it, if they do it in a future firmware then great. If not then you tried.

DJI-Ken Posted at 2016-7-25 11:48
They already know about it, if they do it in a future firmware then great. If not then you tried.

Thanks Ken

knobbydave@hotm Posted at 2016-7-25 13:55
Thanks Ken

No problem, don't know if anything will happen but I forwarded this thread to R&D.