K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:
How did the FlightGear team decide what units to use internally? What
were the tradeoffs? Did the available data sources and the units they
use influence the decision?
I need to decide what units to use in calculations for rendering SVG
from DAFIF and FAA data. Since they
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:
How did the FlightGear team decide what units to use internally? What
were the tradeoffs? Did the available data sources and the units they
use influence the decision?
I need to decide what units to use in calculations for
K. Ari Krupnikov writes:
This is true of nautical miles and, by derivation, knots, but my
impression is that most countries use meters not feet for, say, runway
lengths.
Canada uses the same units as the U.S. for aviation, even though we're
otherwise a Metric country: the only difference
