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Hello,


Does anyone have trouble or has had trouble with the timing on the flight simulator by which I mean I can be in a B737 and a simulation rate of 1 and be doing 480 kts and doing a mile in about 2 seconds (Seems crazy).
What I have be doing is turning it down to about a 1/4 the regular simulation rate and its takes again at 480 kts a mile in about 10 seconds which is still very long.

Thank you

Well, some fast maths concludes (damn I'm feeling rusty ) that at 480kts (groundspeed) you'll travel roughly 247 meters in 1 second, that's around 500 meters in 2 seconds so your theory about going 1nm in 2 seconds doesn't hold really. Yes 1nm in 2 seconds is crazy

Now, 1 nm is 1.8520 kilometers, which of course is 1852 meters.

How many seconds does it take to fly 1nm at 480kts?
1852/247= ca 7,5 seconds

There's your answer Jr.

I'll make some reservations for unintentional faults in the calculations above, I'm not a math wiz