On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:48:39AM +0100, Erik Hofman wrote:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> 
> >Well, fear not, there is.  This magical unit world is called "SI", and
> >it works like this:
> >
> >mass:         kilogram
> 
> This is where it usually goes wrong. In the general language the weight 
> is usually measured in kilos (or kg). It *is* plain wrong, but bad 
> habbits slowly (or never?) fade away.

While a degree in the sciences, which hopefully all teach SI, should
not be necessary to work on FG, I think that a willingness to learn
is. Given that, general usage is not important.

The real question is, is there a consensus to eventually move to SI
units?

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Reply via email to