Personally I can't see why Garmin don't just allow us to set the Connect units exactly as we can display on our devices - simple.
9 years ago and nothing has changed here has it. I can't really see Meters, ask me to judge 12ft and I'll nail it. But silly as it sounds in the UK, I also do miles, ft, yards, deg. C, stone. Not…
I probably shouldn't reply to such an old thread... but I fly light aircraft and gliders in the UK and use a Garmin D2 as a Nav Aid and Flight Recorder, in the UK I and every other pilot, flies using Nautical Miles for distance, Knots for speed (I Knot is about 1.15mph), Feet for altitude and Degrees Celsius for temperature. It is somewhat annoying that I can't persuade my D2 and Garmin Connect to comply with UK Aviation Standards... Oh well, at least I know enough about maths to convert where I need to. We also fly at various pressure settings for elevation, including QNH (altitude above Mean Sea Level) QFE (altitude above your departure airfield) and Standard Pressure (1013 Hectopascals for flight levels). This is also difficult to achieve with the D2, but fortunately I have an altimeter in the plane and the means to calibrate it...
You would have thought that the software designers would have bothered to find out what units are used by pilots in each country they sell to and provide a spec for, wouldn’t you? Rather than just assume everyone either follows what the North Americans, or Continental Europeans do. I note there is no reply from Garmin to this situation… I wonder why not.