David Megginson wrote:
>
> Yech. (By the way, in Ontario [at least] we abbreviate "kilometers
> per hour" to "clicks", i.e. "You won't average better than 70 or 80
> clicks with all the construction." I wonder if that will ever become
> standard usage anywhere else.)
I'm sure I've heard about
C. Hotchkiss writes:
> Ah, yes. I recall that now. A very interesting incident. Amusing that a
> low tech solution like dip sticks is still being used. Also instructive to
> efforts to convert the aircraft industry over to SI. It should be done,
> but with great care.
Yes, I agree, on both p
David Megginson wrote:
> C. Hotchkiss writes:
>
> > The only place... Maybe
> > somebody can recall these instances with better accuracy. Either
> > way, history condemned us to English units.
>
> Yes, ditto for the Gimli Glider, the Air Canada 767 that ran out of
> fuel at altitude and was
So David Megginson says:
[...]
> ditto for the Gimli Glider, the Air Canada 767 that ran out of
> fuel at altitude and was brought down safely on a drag strip (former
> runway) in Gimli, Manitoba:
>
> http://www.frontier.net/~wadenelson/successstories/gimli.html
>
> Air Canada had just switc
C. Hotchkiss writes:
> The only place that I know of that manufactures aircraft (or at
> least did routinely) with SI based instrumentation was the old
> Soviet Union. Some of their aircraft either sold to customers, or
> operating outside the SU were involved in at least two mid air
> colli
"C. Hotchkiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> David,
> The only place that I know of that manufactures aircraft (or at least did
> routinely) with SI based instrumentation was the old Soviet Union. Some of
> their aircraft either sold to customers, or operating outside the SU were
> involved in a
> I'm sure that there exist
> SI aircraft panels somewhere, but I have not yet seen photos of any in
> general aviation.
look here http://www.musicabona.com/martin/pic/tocna11.jpg
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> ... > If a FDM wants to use obscure units internally (e.g. because the
> > developers are use to them) that's their choice. But when we have
> > very universal data that a lot of people need (users, panel
> > programmers, ...) we should use an international standard.
>
> I agree with the pri
Jon S Berndt wrote:
>
> 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
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 b
Christian Mayer writes:
> Great that we've got a standard place for these properties now.
>
> But I'm really concerned that these values aren't in SI units.
>
> So most of the world (except the US and perhaps a few other countries)
> can't use those units anymore without big research (aks
Christian Mayer wrote:
> And there are already 1.5 - 2 FDMs that use SI units (BalloonSim and
> much more important YASim).
Woo hoo! Just a few short months in the source tree and already YASim
is *much* more important than BaloonSim. World domination, here I
come!
As far as the SI vs. English
David Megginson wrote:
>
> Currently, the environment subsystem manages the following properties:
>
> /environment/visibility-m
> /environment/temperature-sea-level-degc
> /environment/temperature-degc
> /environment/pressure-sea-level-inhg
> /environment/pressure-inhg
> /environment/density-sea
Currently, the environment subsystem manages the following properties:
/environment/visibility-m
/environment/temperature-sea-level-degc
/environment/temperature-degc
/environment/pressure-sea-level-inhg
/environment/pressure-inhg
/environment/density-sea-level-slugft3
/environment/density-slugft
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