Radio Altimeter

[Decoys84]

Hi

Quick suggestion that is used in aviation and I would have found use full in lots of my landings is the Radio Altimeter. This gives your height above ground on your current position. This would let you plan a retro burn at a specific altitude to get a good landing rather than a look and guess your altitude and when to retro burn for the landing.

On a side note I currently use something inspired by the dam busters setup for judging my height above the ground. 2 lights pointed at the ground.

Regards

Tom

[Kermunist]

Most of the manned capsules have a radar altimeter on the dashboard. You have to press C (or is it V? can't remember) to change to the cockpit view, then it looks like a dial with numbers around three quarters of the circumference. It starts reading at I think 3000m, with increasing accuracy as it gets lower.

[Traches]

Kerbal engineer and mechjeb will give you that information as well. But you're right, it would be nice to have a stock readout of that information without going IVA.

[KvickFlygarn87]

Like Kermunist said, you can see it in the IVA view (It's C), but it would be nice to have the radar altitude without having to go to IVA mode. Maybe some sort of switch between radar and normal altimeter (Whatever you would use the normal for)?

[minerman30]

Like Kermunist said, you can see it in the IVA view (It's C), but it would be nice to have the radar altitude without having to go to IVA mode. Maybe some sort of switch between radar and normal altimeter (Whatever you would use the normal for)?

Normal would be used for orbital data, to prevent a valley making you think that you weren't going to hit the atmosphere.

[jwenting]

yes, would be very valuable for landing unmanned craft (and manned too, I prefer to land in outside view, the navball is easier to read from there).

[koshelenkovv]

Yes, it would be nice to have switchable altimeter, just like speedometer on navball (which can switch between orbit, surface and target).