FSX Map Coodinates

[rocky289]

Regarding coordinate conversions.
Can anyone point me to an online converter that will convert metric coordinates to the same format used in FSX?

[Ian Warren]

What your asking is Metric to the standard US-Imperial ?

[scaber]

The coordinates are lattitude and longitude - ie degrees, and decimal minutes. That means if the coordinate you want to enter has 30 sec of arc as the last entry then you would divide that by 60 to get the decimal minutes of arc - ie .5 and add that to the minutes in FSX rather than adding the seconds value.

ie a lattitude of S 41 5' 30'' in the real world would be S41 5.5' in FSX


I think that Google earth uses the same decimal minutes system as FSX - at least it seems to work for me swapping between the two!!

[Timmo]

There are quite a few things you 'may' mean here by 'metric coordinates'- Can you be a bit more specific?

[rocky289]

I have been using this converter

http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/...SS-decimal.html

If I enter a metric coordinate, for example

-44.3607712 168.008682

It converts to

44 21 38.775 168 0 31.2546

The FSX Map uses less digits