I have just returned from the Cayman Islands, which is part of the British West Indies. Virtually everything in the Caymans is ifp. There is a mish mash of left hand drive and right hand drive cars. The Caymanians drive on the left side of the road. More than 90% of the tourists to the Caymans come from the USA. The American Airlines flights from Austin to Dallas Ft Worth to Miami to Grand Cayman and return almost consistently gave temperatures in Farenheit and Celsius. The Miami to DFW leg was in a Boeing 777. This aircraft has TV monitors in every armrest plus overhead screens. The moving map of the aircraft's progress and stats on speed , distance, and altitude etc. alternated between ifp and metric. The metric abbreviations were correct. Baron Carter -----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Gallagher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 12 June, 2001 06:30 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:13711] Re: Recent US trip > > I was annoyed to see an airspeed posted in units of "km/St." in the German > version of flight information on the TV screen on my Delta Airlines flight > from the US to The Netherlands recently. I have written to Delta telling > them that the symbol for kilometres per hour in German is the same as it is > everywhere else, namely "km/h", even though the German word for "hour" is > "Stunde". > And I've been annoyed that on Air Canada flights, the flight information that is displayed gives the details in SI in French, but uses FFU when displaying the details in English.
