On 19/10/2012, tom claffey <[email protected]> wrote: > Aviation uses feet for height, metres for horizontal distance and knots for > speed - deal with it! > The teenagers I teach with the AAFC have no problems with it. > Tom >
The only problem with the "this is the way it's always been done" approach is we end up with weather reports etc that are more suitable for WW2 then 2012. If we're already mixing metric and imperial units, what's the harm in putting a metric equivalent as well? I suspect no-one goes into aviation with an intuitive understanding of what 2000 feet AGL looks like. Everyone has to learn "at height X, the view looks like Y", so the units are irrelevant. The altimeter could read in fractions of a football field and I bet student pilots would cope just as well.. Smaller distances are a different story. It's reasonable for a 20 year old to instantly point to something ~100M away, but I bet they'd be much slower when the unit is specified in feet. Cheers, Al _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
