When I’m trying to set the wind speed manually in weather options, the sim is showing me wind speed in km/h, not in kt. Is it possible to change this to knots as it should be?
Also, when opening the navplan, I see the altitude in meters etc. Can this be changed to feet as it should be? Same thing with speed. MSFS shows this in km/h.
I’m not seeing this, so my guess it has to do with your Windows locale settings.
Also see this:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/could-you-finally-fix-wrong-units/511266
Interesting. Will have a look at the thread you linked to.
It has nothing to do with local Windows settings, you can change units in the MSFS options somewhere between Imperial, Metric and Hybrid units. Weather menu does state km/h for windspeed but its really not, its m/s. In any case using Imperial or Hybrid units all wind speeds need to be in kts, using Metric all wind speeds should be m/s it’s a weird mess now. ATIS windspeed is the weirdest, I believe it’s given in ft / sec no matter what units you are using.
In my humble opinion this needed addressing 2 years ago. I filed a ticket at the time because it is such a basic thing to be wrong and sadly it still hasn’t changed.
80% ish of aviation uses feet, millibars/hpa, nm & knots. The other 20% use meters per second instead for wind speed (not airspeed), use meters for altitude and some crazy people use inches mercury for their altimeter settings.
That cannot beyond Asobo to fix, and fix easily. Why on Earth this game is showing km/h is beyond me.
Only some crazy people use millibars also (UK), most of the world uses hectopascal (hPa) although its the same as mb 
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But yes wind speeds are a complete mess, everything should either be in kts or m/s, not a weird mess of kts, km/h, m/s and ft /sec 
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I’lo give you that one. If memory serves UK ATC use millibars when the pressure is below 1000hpa. I always find it a good thing, I do think it reduces errors.
It doesn’t matter because mb and hPa are the same thing . Weirdly it does say in the UK CAP about radiotelephony to add “hectopascal” when QNH is below 1000 if I remember correctly. Bit weird.
Have they changed that? They always said millibars. Is that bad I haven’t noticed?! 
…come to think of it, I do remember they made a change
One thing about aviation that is common everywhere is that there are too many changes!
All this looks like an unfortunate, perhaps inconvenient and confusing by-product of living in an interconnected diverse world with our own way of doing things.
I reckon you have to go either Metric or Imperial, Hybrid just complicates and confuses.
I’m Australian, we use Metric here but I use Imperial for the sim, simply because it’s more customary as is anything Maritime. Remembering approx things like, 3-4ft = 1m, 1 Gallon is 3-4 Litres and 2.2 pounds is a Kilo etc. can be a help for guestimations anyway.
FWIW Hybrid is as close to real world as the sim currently does it.
Yeah definitely. If it confuses so much, chose one or the other and be done with it I reckon. It’s really not that bad, just another annoying thing to learn and try get used to 
What they need to do is just reflect aviation. I don’t know why there is even the choice of Metric or Imperial…it isn’t realistic.
Hybrid uses metric units except for speed (kts) and altitude (feet). Otherwise liters, kgs, etc. (Metric units) are being used.
As already said, it’s a mess/dogs dinner/tram crash.
Whatever your euphemism of choice is really.
Not 100% in Aviation. It’s a mix.
For an authentic virtual nostalgia flight in the JU 53 of 1939, it may well be a viable option.
Yeah I know, I was meaning our general standard unit of measurement outside of aviation. I should of worded it better.
@Tomcat677801, yeah bro, I love flying the older stuff, doesn’t get more “Raw Aviation” than that. Proper Avgeek stuff and still just as highly technical in its own right.
Gotcha, and I kind of figured that after I edited my post to add your Q (I was trying to be nice and spread your topic). I just left my guess in there even though I figured it could be wrong. I’ve now crossed it out.
I’m pretty sure that UK ATC have adopted hectopascals, it’s just that they only explicitly give the units when the value is less than 1000 to avoid confusion with other three-digit numbers.