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Oct 21, 2014 2:34 PM in response to Kappyby Kappy,Oh, now I remember what may be a flight of stairs consisting of thousands of stairs - the stairway to heaven.
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Oct 21, 2014 2:56 PM in response to Csound1by Kappy,There's no flight of stairs down. You just go straight to . Not even Dante walked.
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Oct 21, 2014 5:02 PM in response to Csound1by Kappy,Yeah, but that was because it took a while to warm up to the place.
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Nov 17, 2014 7:43 AM in response to Csound1by kmckean,For Fitbit, a flight of stairs equals roughly 10 feet of vertical climb (you don't get credit for descent!). I bet Apple chose roughly the same measure.
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Nov 17, 2014 7:47 AM in response to wa4rqdby kmckean,In Fitbit, a flight of stairs equals roughly 10 feet of vertical climb (you don't get credit for descending). It doesn't key on how many steps or any other such item. You can tell because if you bicycle with a Fitbit, it will count stairs climbed as your vertical ascent in feet divided by 10. It doesn't care if you reached a "landing" or not. I'm betting Apple used somewhat the same system, though it would be nice to know what the exact setting is. If someone takes an iPhone on a bike ride and climbs a hill of known height, that should be possible to calculate.
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Jan 28, 2015 8:09 PM in response to wa4rqdby Dan Cornett,I found a reference that a 'flight' is considered to be 12 feet (by the Health app). Since most stair-steps are ~8", you have to climb at least 18 steps for the effort to be considered a "flight" of stairs.
This number of steps (18+) is typically true for "one floor" for most commercial buildings; many, many homes, however, only have 12-14 stair-steps per floor, which is 10' or less -- so the Health app won't consistently register that as a 'flight' of stairs.
If you have 2 sets of stairs in your home, you can confirm this by going an extra 6 steps (e.g.: if you have basement steps, go from the first floor down 6 steps, back up, then continue on to the second floor).
I have also noted that 'landings' don't matter, as long as you don't stop walking (too long) on the landings.
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Oct 2, 2016 10:20 AM in response to Dan Cornettby hydeaway62,My understanding is a 10' change in elevation equates to a flight to stairs.
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Oct 2, 2016 11:00 AM in response to wa4rqdby Gerald Edgar,Perhaps mention the name of the app you are talking about...
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Oct 2, 2016 12:19 PM in response to Gerald Edgarby Meg St._Clair,Gerald Edgar wrote:
Perhaps mention the name of the app you are talking about...
You're responding to a two year old post. This thread go resurrected recently. Doubt the OP is still hanging about.
Best of luck.