# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6791
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499/6791 "2024-10-13T21:44:03Z")
  Please excuse the off-topic interruption, here, but I have some questions that, while not directly related to aviation, I believe aviators would be most likely to have the answers I seek.   It has to do with instrumentation to be used in a ground vehicle, to measure parameters that are similar to those more commonly of interest in aircraft.   My thread on the subject is at… > [@“Aircraft” instruments in a Jeep?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aircraft-instruments-in-a-jeep/1008731): > >   Since getting my Jeep, I have found myself, in some circumstances, wanting to have an objective sense regarding its attitude and movement, that I associate with aircraft-type instruments.   Most specifically, but not the whole of it, is that I often find myself wanting to know, with objective certainty, whether I am going uphill or downhill, gaining or losing elevation, and at what rate.   To a lesser degree, I want an objective sense of what my pitch and roll angles are, relative to what th… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499)._