Knowledgebase Simulation: Aircraft_position_data

See also Simulator altitudes.

P3D and FSX

P3D FSX

• Altitude values own aircraft: PLANE ALTITUDE, PLANE ALT ABOVE GROUND, STATIC CG TO GROUND, GROUND ALTITUDE
• Example: aircraft in EDRY 312ft ELV

	C172	B737
altitude	315.72497011731951	321.66457557565963
altitudeAboveGround	3.7254348326937929	9.6653964302668669
cgToGround	3.7650001049041748	9.6700000762939453
elevation	311.99953528462572	311.99917914539276

• Altitude values queried for remote aircraft: PLANE ALTITUDE, STATIC CG TO GROUND, GROUND ALTITUDE
• Position values for remote aircraft SIMCONNECT_DATA_INITPOSITION.

X-Plane

X-Plane

• Own aircraft example: aircraft at KSEA rwy 16L (432.5ft / 131.826m ELV)

	C172	B744
sim/flightmodel/position/elevation	133.3706	136.9491
sim/flightmodel/position/y_agl	0.0694	0.2349
sim/aircraft/gear/acf_h_eqlbm	2.9933	4.7176