On Wed, 15 May 2002 12:52:39 -0400
  David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have no objection personally to doing everything in SI -- I'm
>Canadian, so I'm very used to metric.

I wish that the U.S. had standardized on metric, and that 
I had grown up on it, and that everything we use was based 
on metric - that would make it easier for all of us. 
Unfortunately that's not the case. I also wish that a 
kilogram was always a unit of mass and was not used as a 
unit of weight (force).

Since much of our data that we build up aircraft models on 
is found in English units, we'd have to spend time 
converting that - and potentially introducing errors. I 
sympathize with SI users - it's a generally good system. 
But in the real world we've got to use what we're given - 
reality is not so nicely ordered.

Jon

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