Controller from meters to feet?

Harleymhs · Jul 10, 2015

hey guys, I see in the owners manual it shows a pic of the controller showing feet mine shows meters, ant way to change it to feet? I thought I read somewhere that you can but I wanted to double check! Thank u

rrmccabe · Jul 10, 2015

I am told 3DR is working on that. No way to change it at the moment.

DodgeP · Jul 10, 2015

How I convert meters to feet (and after a while the numbers will stick), for a rough estimate, even though the distance in feet is displayed on the app. I've only commit 5 rough calculations to memory and they are 100m, 250m, 500m, 750m and 1000m

Take the number of meters, multiply by 3 then take 1/4 of the original meters and add to the end.

Meters x 3 + 25% of the original meters = Rough Distance in Feet

100 Meters x 3 + 25% of the original meters = 325ft (estimate) | 328ft (actual)
250 Meters x 3 + 25% of the original meters = 812ft (estimate) | 820ft (actual)
500 Meters x 3 + 25% of the original meters = 1625ft (estimate) | 1640ft (actual)
750 Meters x 3 + 25% of the original meters = 2437ft (estimate) | 2460ft (actual)
1000 Meters x 3 + 25% of the original meters = 3250ft (estimate) | 3280ft (actual)

I know it's all jibberish right now but, it helps me out a bit.

Rich · Jul 10, 2015

I always just mult by 3 and call it close enough for me.

tesmithp · Jul 10, 2015

Are you guys talking about the controller screen or the app?

Dirby · Jul 10, 2015

tesmithp said:
Are you guys talking about the controller screen or the app?

yeah

rrmccabe · Jul 10, 2015

tesmithp said:
Are you guys talking about the controller screen or the app?

Controller. App you can change

Dirby · Jul 10, 2015

rrmccabe said:
Controller. App you can change

Rich.
the little screen in the middle of the controler theese numbers shows up in meeters and this can't be changed to feet.
wish it could.
theese numbers i can see fine.
the other ones on the tablet are very hard to read to small.
they are in feet.