Since nautical miles are larger than statute miles, you can bet your a.. that NM are not 'on'. Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: December 10, 2000 04:28 Subject: [USMA:9657] Re: CIA World Fact Book >Dear John and All, > >Recently I was dreaming about visiting Athens and Paris as I passed a travel >agents. In this happy conjunction of circumstances, I entered and enquired >about the prices of fares. > >The travel agent suggested that I might be better off buying a 'round world' >ticket and coming home via Canada and the USA. She then told me that I could >plan a route up to 29 000 miles for a certain price; up to 31 000 miles for >an additional amount; and so on. > >When I naturally enquired 'What kind of miles are used to calculate the >fares?' she confidently told me that they were 'air miles'; and no amount of >questioning could elicit any further information such as the origin or the >length of an 'air mile' - she simply didn't know. > >Does anyone know what 'air miles' are. Are they the same as one or other of >the land miles, or are they really nautical miles placed higher than sea >level? > >Cheers, > >Pat Naughtin CAMS >Geelong, Australia > >on 07.12.2000 15.58, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 2000-12-06 >> >> Why don't they just drop the term "mile" and just call the unit >> "nautical(s)". Nautical miles per hour will still be called knots, but it >> will be newly defined as nauticals per hour. I'm sure someone can come up >> with a proper symbol. >> >> The reason I think this would be a good idea is for a couple of reasons: >> >> 1.) It will dissolve the connection with statute miles. >> >> 2.) It will end the common practice of dropping the term "nautical" in >> peoples minds when nautical mile is used, thus allowing people to assume a >> nautical mile and statute mile are one and the same. >> >> Which reminds me; when an airline pilot is telling the passengers that he >> has x miles visibility or x miles of something, is he converting nautical >> miles to statute, or is he really telling us nautical miles and just >> dropping the term nautical? Does anyone know? >> >> I'm sure someone else can also come up with some good reasons to change the >> nautical mile name to something else. >> >> John >> >> >> There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they >> are free! >> >> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> Behalf Of James R. Frysinger >> Sent: Wednesday, 2000-12-06 19:23 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Cc: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:9582] Re: CIA World Fact Book >> >> >> I used "NM" in my career in the Navy and never saw it any other way, >> except for the occasional "n. mi." or the spelled out version. There is >> no international standard symbol for nautical mile that anyone on this >> list could find. >> >> Jim >> >> Gregory Peterson wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I faxed a suggestion to the CIA World Fact Book {they don't have >> an email address for some strange reason..... >;) } asking them >> to change the unit "nm" use for nautical miles to something more >> appropriate since "nm" means "nanometres". >>> >>> Today I received a call from a Mr. Bob Frasier (he told me his >> family was originally from Nova Scotia and he's related to the all >> the Frasiers 'down-east'). He manages the World Fact Book and was >> willing to change "nm" to "NM" since the Navy and Defence >> Department also use this capitalized abbreviation. Good enough for >> me. He also invited any other comments that I may have on the site. >>> >>> He told me that they receive 460'000 hits per month to their >> site, mostly from American school children. Since this site is >> primarily metric I was pleased to hear this statistic. >>> >>> greg >>> Saskatoon SK Canada >> >> -- >> Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" >> James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ >> 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789 >> >> >
