Live ADSB Traffic details displayed too high altitude & speed

[xoset100]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

In free flight mode, when live air traffic is displayed, hovering over a real aircraft the altitude and speed are shown incorrectly. Many aircraft are shown as flying at >100kft - pretty unlikely!

I suspect that the source data is given in feet (e.g. 30kft) but is incorrectly assumed to be in metres, and so multiplied by 3.280 and then declared to be feet.

Same or similar issue with the speed - speeds dsiplayed as 800kts+ are too fast.

Once gameplay starts having selected one of these aircraft, the flight is at a sensible altitude and speed.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Every time

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Free flight mode
2. Select a live flight
3. View the details

YOUR SETTINGS

Xbox

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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

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[Stupointer]

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Beta SU2 - live traffic viewed on the Free Flight map is much too high. eg Air Canada 192, Airbus 220-300 is cruising at 108,263 ft. Seen in Calgary, AB, Canada area

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue: n/a

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? YES

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? All the time

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Go into Free Flight
2. select live traffic
3. click on any plane in flight on the map

YOUR SETTINGS

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What peripherals are you using, if relevant: not relevant

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? NO

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 4080

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[FlightMotion]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

When you click on a Live Traffic aircraft on the Free Flight map, the displayed altitude/speed is incorrect. The altitude is converted to feet twice. For example, ‘35000 ft’ is displayed as ‘114829.40’ (35000 x 3.280839895). The speed is also incorrect.

I don’t know if this is new to SU4.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

1. Make sure ‘Units of Measurement’ is set to U.S. System or Hybrid

2. Go to Free Flight

3. Click on a Live Traffic aircraft icon

4. Check displayed altitude/speed

[ClevererElm8055]

In the World Map, Air Traffic flight information displays incorrect information in context.
The Altitude and Speed ​​fields display non-contextual units of measurement.

The speed field displays “kn”; at first glance, it should be “km/h.”