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Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 7:48
AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] metric system
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?
Charly,
I lerned to use a P for lead, which stands
for PLUMBUM (latin?).
Richard Sohn
N-2071U
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