How do I change KPH to MPH?

[Grant]

Is there a way? lol

[Dick Caught In Fan]

in your docC:\Users\Your_profile\Documents\Arma3\Yourprofile.Arma3profile there should be a line that says
useImperialSystem=0 change the 0 to a 1

[Dick Caught In Fan]

if that line isnt in either of the 3 files, then add it to the one that is coherent english, not binarized
useImperialSystem=1;

[Barthanol]

^.^ a écrit :

And once you get that start thinking celsius!
When they report C just double and add 30 to get an approximate F

25 C is... 25 x 2 = 50 + 30 = 80 F
(actual is 77 F but again we're trying to let you think fast under fire)

Slick huh? Again, not exact but typically it will meet your needs in the field.

Anyone want to know how to calculate a compass reciprocal quickly? :-)
That is great for running rear-quarter intercepts on bandits.

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If you desire precision instead of an approximate conversion, the formula is as follows; Take the Celcius temperature & double it then subtract 10% & add 32.

The formula for Farenheit to Celcius conversion is a bit more complex, Take the temperature in Farenheit and subtract 32 & then multiply it by 5/9 or 0.55555556 (Try doing that in your head!).

[GBee]

Rough table:

100km = 60 miles (62)
80km = 50 miles
60km = 40 miles (37)
40km = 25 miles
20km = 12.5 miles
10km = 6 miles

[Marshall]

WiLD|NZPorterDJ a écrit :

GkR | AusArmaHub.com a écrit :

Imperial is like a rollercoaster, all over the place.

Not sure I'm getting it: Enemy rifleman, three furlongs + a chain, south by south west. What's hard about that?

the f$ck is a furlong?

[jakanddan]

I just remember that 1 km = around 0.6 miles and 1 mile = around 1.6 km

[Tickleshit]

Chainsaw Squirrel a écrit :

nope .. cant be done.. Bohemia is a european company .. and all the maps they have or will release are KPH

you do realize there is a simple conversion they can do, right? it wouldn't be hard for Bohemia to implement an option at all. just pure laziness. it's not like it's written in stone, either way...

"Oh BuT tHe ReALiSm!1!" - don't be an apologist. we all know it's out of laziness.

the ones claiming "imperial is retarded and abitrary" have clearly never really looked into WHY it's used. (you CANNOT easily divide metric into fourths, or eighths, or sixteenths, or thirty-seconds... meanwhile imperial does this flawlessly)

computer systems are "imperial" as well. binary systems easily divide into fourths, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds, sixty-fourths, etc...

and as irrelevent as it might be here, music is also "imperial," with quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, and sixty-fourth notes...

but yeah... imperial is SOOOO useless...

Me a écrit :

1 meter is darn close to 1 yard.

no it's not. i have a measuring stick on my wall, a yard is roughly 91cm. that's nearly a 10% difference.
100 yards = 91 meters.
1000 yards = 915 meters

if a 10% difference is "close enough," i don't think i believe you when you claim you were in the military.

Lavernius Regalis a écrit :

It's a military simulator. Name a military that uses the imperial system.

the US still does. we call out distance in "klicks," sure, just for international understanding... but our speed gauges are still in MPH.

not to mention, the military already has a simulator. this is a video game. don't get pretentious.

[Saint Michael the Archangel]

Tickleshits a écrit :

Chainsaw Squirrel a écrit :

nope .. cant be done.. Bohemia is a european company .. and all the maps they have or will release are KPH

you do realize there is a simple conversion they can do, right? it wouldn't be hard for Bohemia to implement an option at all. just pure laziness. it's not like it's written in stone, either way...

"Oh BuT tHe ReALiSm!1!" - don't be an apologist. we all know it's out of laziness.

the ones claiming "imperial is retarded and abitrary" have clearly never really looked into WHY it's used. (you CANNOT easily divide metric into fourths, or eighths, or sixteenths, or thirty-seconds... meanwhile imperial does this flawlessly)

computer systems are "imperial" as well. binary systems easily divide into fourths, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds, sixty-fourths, etc...

and as irrelevent as it might be here, music is also "imperial," with quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, and sixty-fourth notes...

but yeah... imperial is SOOOO useless...

Me a écrit :

1 meter is darn close to 1 yard.

no it's not. i have a measuring stick on my wall, a yard is roughly 91cm. that's nearly a 10% difference.
100 yards = 91 meters.
1000 yards = 915 meters

if a 10% difference is "close enough," i don't think i believe you when you claim you were in the military.

Lavernius Regalis a écrit :

It's a military simulator. Name a military that uses the imperial system.

the US still does. we call out distance in "klicks," sure, just for international understanding... but our speed gauges are still in MPH.

not to mention, the military already has a simulator. this is a video game. don't get pretentious.

Imagine trying to justify the imperial system in 2019 because you can divide by 4 and 8.

[Steve C.]

In aviation, the most common unit for distance is Nautical Miles (NM) because it is equal to 1 arc minute (1/60th of a degree) of latitude. Since you are usually figuring out locations with Lat/Long coordinates, it makes it easy to figure out distances on standard aeronautical charts. The corresponding speed unit (nautical miles per hour) is Knots (KTS).

Once I was in an exercise where the Carrier Air Wing was doing stuff with the Destroyer Squadron (surface warfare people), and when we were trying to communicate locations, the surface guys kept referring to distances in yards or thousands of yards. Although the conversion is fairly simple, 2000 yds per NM, when you are in a plane and have a much shorter time to punch things into your systems (which take inputs in NM) than the guys steaming around on the water, it is kind of a pain. So eventually the air people convinced the surface people to report their distances in NM.

Also, if you look in the ICAO Annex 5 (latest edition is July 2010), it lists the permitted Non-SI units as NM for distance, knots for speed, and feet for altitude, with no established termination date.

[[MT] Protocol68]

I get the realism aspect to it, but when it comes to flying aircraft and even ships everything is in knots and miles. I must say that is isn't hard to convert between the two (1 knot is about 1mile so 1.6 km) but from someone who knows how to fly planes fairly well, it would be nice to have the option.

[Saint Michael the Archangel]

VSG_ProtoCall a écrit :

I get the realism aspect to it, but when it comes to flying aircraft and even ships everything is in knots and miles. I must say that is isn't hard to convert between the two (1 knot is about 1mile so 1.6 km) but from someone who knows how to fly planes fairly well, it would be nice to have the option.

knots is a measurement of speed, not distance. Knots is nautical miles per hour, and a nautical mile is 1852 metres. Nautical Miles are completely unrelated to land miles, with land miles serving no purpose for immersion unless you want to pretend to be a caveman

[El Berl]

Knock knock, it's the Steam Workshop.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1382919457&searchtext=change+kph+to+mph

[VileAce]

Open Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\NAME.Arma3Profile
Search for useImperialSystem=0; and change the 0 to a 2.

[heartc]

Lavernius Regalis a écrit :

It's a military simulator. Name a military that uses the imperial system.

The Imperial System is used by at least all NATO air forces (I believe also the Swiss Air Force and other "neutral" Western countries) as well as commercial aviation. By now, only Russian aviation and some other former Warsaw Pact countries use metric throughout their aviation. Not sure about Chinese aviation, but I imagine they are using metric, too, with all the Russian hardware they have.

It was more diverse before and during WWII, with all European Nations except Britain using the Metric System, and Japanese Naval Aviation using a mixed system - speed in knots and altitude in meters / kilometers, while Japanese Army Aviation was fully metric.
Some air forces also had planes from different countries in their arsenal, such as the Finnish, who had German 109s, British Hurricanes, American Brewster Buffalos and Soviet I-153s, and during the Cold War, they struck a deal with the USSR for the use of MiG-21s. Not sure in how far they unified the systems to either metric or imperial, but I think for the most part during the war, they left it as is, because they probably didn't have time to pull the planes from the front just to exchange and calibrate different instruments.

[heartc]

Actually, I looked it up again just now and found that Japanese Army Aviation, in some planes, like the N1K2, also used knots for speed and meters for altitude, while using km/h in others, like in the Ki-61. I reckon it may have shifted in design for Army fighters during the war, as the focus changed from a land war against China to a naval war in the Pacific (the N1K2 was a late war plane).

EDIT: Actually, scratch that. The N1K2 - while purely land-based - was a Japanese Navy plane. So what I originally wrote is correct.