Educate me, folks. I thought that feet were used worldwide in aviation because of the perceived danger of changing over to metric in some kind of terrifying interim. Do we in fact have both meters and feet being used in flight? Talk about your Gimli-Mars tragedies-in-the-making!
Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist Vice President U.S. Metric Association, Inc. Midland, Texas USA www.metric.org +1(432)528-7724 [email protected] On Jul 8, 2013, at 0:38, Bruce Arkwright Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > What if that poor tired Vietnamese pilot, forget he had hit the convert > button, after crossing into our air space, but still read meters instead of > feet as he aproched the landing strip? Will FAA emit to that? At any rate its > time for FAA to get on board! > > > Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr > Erie PA > Linux and Metric User and Enforcer > > > I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar > energy have you collected today? > Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope > we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I > had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ > >
