In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Palfreyman" writes: >When I fly in a commercial plane, the display in front of me shows its speed >in km/h and height in metres. The pilot announces the same. > >I would have thought that if any group of people could convert quickly it >would be airline pilots.
Ahh, but it's not just the pilots is it ? It's also all the instruments in the planes, all the lingo with ATC and all the maps. A particular worry would be flightlevels, where it would get really nasty if somebody confuses feet and meter near a major airport. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
