Selected Unit System (imperial/metric) doesn't stay
Small problem but a bit annoying... today again my existing plan showed (PC/Windows) imperial units, instead of the metric system.
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We are making unit system a user profile setting that persists across browsers and native app installs.
Good. I tried today my first flight. Made a very simple plan, just to see that all works fine. Checked the plan at home once again and went to the flying area. The result was almost a disaster ...
At the very beginning the drone was supposed to fly in 15 meters, but I noticed that it was a way too low. I quickly hit the RTH button and saved the situation. Well, two of the drone propellers touched some long bushes and got little scratches. I scared a bit and was wondering what happened and saw that the unit system in my mobile app was IMPERIAL, not metric like I had set earlier. This was the reason drone flew much too low, the ground clearance was totally too little.
Back to home and opened my Windows/PC and there the flight plan had correct units; metric. So almost the same happened like with Space Shuttle Challenger (1986), where the shuttle design team had mixed metric and imperial values happily together. Well, in smaller scale, but the root cause was the same :-)
Please prioritize this bug fix before somebody destroys his drone, thanks!
The feature is already available to test in beta.
Tero ; Nasa missions have been impacted by unit confusion (esp. when working with Non US organizations). Challenger wasn't units, it was seals becoming inflexible in cold weather.
I noticed this issue earlier today when the web app updated - Jim McAndrew does that making it a user setting which goes everywhere, sharing a mission will or won't convert units ? (I.e. If I send you something with 50M does it become 50 feet for you?)
Everything in the code is always in metric, the unit system setting is for display purposes only.
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