Hi Roy,

That is very common. It is the standard. I suppose it is similar to most
industrial gauges which have the zero at the bottom.

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
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On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:18:20 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Bourgeois wrote:
This may be a silly question - but are all metric altimeters
configured with 'Zero at 6 O'clock' as I saw in France?
I did not have trouble converting to meters/kilometers
but I did have trouble quickly reading the altimeter
with the zero at the bottom of the instrument face
(especially on the little 57mm instruments). Just
curious.

Roy

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