roa Posted March 13, 2018 Report Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) Hi, I am developing a small utility program for P3Dv4/FSX that reads the airport altitude data from the runways.xml file. When testing this app I now see that the altitude in runways.xml is not the same as given by P3Dv4 when sitting on an airport. The altitude I get from P3Dv4's MAP view are around 5 feets higher than what I have in runways.xml The difference is not for just a specific airport, but seems be for all airports( At least those I have checked) Why is there a difference? Isn't these data read from the same bgl files? Edited March 13, 2018 by roa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHD Posted March 13, 2018 Report Share Posted March 13, 2018 If you are reading the altitude from the top-left of the screen, this is the distance from the ground to your aircraft CoG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roa Posted March 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2018 Thanks, the difference is the distance from ground up to CoG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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