Or...more probably the people that didn't know what 10 degress meant didn't care to clarify because there is no way ever that LA would be 10 degrees F. :) So, what did it really matter? :)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [USMA:46960] Qantas announcement
From: Jon Saxton <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, March 21, 2010 5:43 am
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Near the end of a recent flight from Australia, the plane is approaching
Los Angeles International quite early in the morning and a cockpit
announcement describes the conditions on the ground as "sunny with light
winds and a temperature of ten degrees".
That's it. No mention of °C or °F. The pilot just assumed everyone
knew what an unqualified 10° meant. And for what it was worth, he was
probably correct. I did not hear a single person in my vicinity ask for
clarification or conversion. (At a rough guess based on the queues at
immigration the passengers were about evenly divided between Australians
and US Americans).
