I am so embarrassed by America and our failure to convert to the metric system.   While the whole rest of the world has adopted our language as the international language, we cant even convert to the universal system of units!  That is really lame.

 

Other than the fact that feet does seem to work better than meters for the airspace system (though that can eventually be worked out), the rest of aviation should have changed by now.  Altimeter settings should be in mm Hg, all temps in C.  Speed limits and speedometers in all cars should be in Km.  Postal weights should be in Kg...

 

Sigh,

Dave Leonard

 

On 11/23/06, Perry Mick <pjmick@verizon.net> wrote:

Good catch, I didn't notice that. Probably not a typo, as NGK is
Japanese and does things metric, while Sac Sky Ranch is US and probably
uses English units.
900F is 482 C if I did the conversion correctly. That says that lead
fouling should not occur above 482 C? Not my experience.

Aviation in the US uses a strange mix of units, AWOS reports altitudes
in feet but temperatures in C.

>Charlie England wrote:

>The quote for carbon uses C; the quote for lead uses F. Is one a typo?


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