"Jim Palfreyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Wow. > >Don't tell me people still use miles? Nautical or otherwise? > >What's wrong with the good old kilometre? > >Jim
Tradition. TWA and Pan American opened the long-range routes before WWII. So all the worldwide aviation standards used whatever they were using. In this age of computers, it probably makes little difference except for the confusion it would cause in switching over. That means changing all the documents and training, and the zillions of hidden details based on the old standards. For example, here's happened when the Boeing 767 went all-metric: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=744 Regards, Mike Monett _______________________________________________ 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.
