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On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:59:28 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rot Speed,
the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope LOL Got another little climax, you auto-contradicting senile asshole? -- Kerr-Mudd,John addressing senile Rot: "Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)" MID: |
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On 19/01/2019 09:56, Rod Speed wrote:
"NY" wrote in message o.uk... "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. I would have thought that it's because they want a one-syllable word (like "mile") that begins with k for kilometre. But that doesnt explain why they changed from miles to km. Is that the reason, No. or is there another one? yep. The military standardised on kilometers because NATO did that. And NATO includes a lot of countries that use the metric system. And goes on foreign expeditions. So I was right. -- Max Demian |
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"Max Demian" wrote in message ... On 19/01/2019 09:56, Rod Speed wrote: "NY" wrote in message o.uk... "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. I would have thought that it's because they want a one-syllable word (like "mile") that begins with k for kilometre. But that doesnt explain why they changed from miles to km. Is that the reason, No. or is there another one? yep. The military standardised on kilometers because NATO did that. And NATO includes a lot of countries that use the metric system. And goes on foreign expeditions. It hadn't gone on any at the time it went to kilometres. So I was right. Nope, wrong, as always. |
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
... yep. The military standardised on kilometers because NATO did that. And NATO includes a lot of countries that use the metric system. And goes on foreign expeditions. It hadn't gone on any at the time it went to kilometres. So I was right. Nope, wrong, as always. OK. So what is the real reason that "the military" (in which country - worldwide?) adopted the metric system? Is it related to the fact that (UK) Ordnance Survey maps (originally linked to the British army) adopted a National Grid that used kilometre (rather than mile) squares measured from some datum off south-west England - even for its imperial-scale 1-inch and 6-inch maps, long before OS changed to 1:50,000, 1:25,000 etc maps (2 cm = 1 km). Is there some common factor that caused both military and OS (and NATO) to use kilometres? |
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"NY" wrote in message ... "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... yep. The military standardised on kilometers because NATO did that. And NATO includes a lot of countries that use the metric system. And goes on foreign expeditions. It hadn't gone on any at the time it went to kilometres. So I was right. Nope, wrong, as always. OK. So what is the real reason that "the military" (in which country - worldwide?) adopted the metric system? As I said, so NATO worked better. That was the reason for standardising on other stuff like ammo too, for the same reason. Is it related to the fact that (UK) Ordnance Survey maps (originally linked to the British army) adopted a National Grid that used kilometre (rather than mile) squares measured from some datum off south-west England - even for its imperial-scale 1-inch and 6-inch maps, long before OS changed to 1:50,000, 1:25,000 etc maps (2 cm = 1 km). Partly. Is there some common factor that caused both military and OS (and NATO) to use kilometres? Forget the detail there. |
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On 13/01/2019 12:35, Roger Hayter wrote:
I think the decimetre gets used quite a lot, at least in France. We don't seem to use it at all. The Range sells net curtains by the decimetre, but they don't brag about it. -- Max Demian |
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On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang |
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"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. |
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On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. |
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On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 6:23:59 PM UTC, Max Demian wrote:
On 13/01/2019 12:35, Roger Hayter wrote: I think the decimetre gets used quite a lot, at least in France. We don't seem to use it at all. The Range sells net curtains by the decimetre, but they don't brag about it. -- Max Demian Most fabrics are sold (retail) in multiples of 10cm, FWIW. I don't often see it referred to as a decimetre though |
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"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. |
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"jkn" wrote in message
... On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 6:23:59 PM UTC, Max Demian wrote: On 13/01/2019 12:35, Roger Hayter wrote: I think the decimetre gets used quite a lot, at least in France. We don't seem to use it at all. The Range sells net curtains by the decimetre, but they don't brag about it. -- Max Demian Most fabrics are sold (retail) in multiples of 10cm, FWIW. I don't often see it referred to as a decimetre though No, it is convention to use powers of 1000 - so: 1/1,000,000 1/1000 1 1000 1,000,000 That's why modern rev counters are calibrated as 1, 2, 3 x1000 rpm rather than the older standard of 10, 20, 30 x100 rpm. (Coupled with that, having two gauges calibrated 10, 20, 30 - 80 is ripe for confusion.) So 10 cm rather than 1 dm. 100 m rather than 1 hm. |
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NY wrote:
"jkn" wrote in message ... On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 6:23:59 PM UTC, Max Demian wrote: On 13/01/2019 12:35, Roger Hayter wrote: I think the decimetre gets used quite a lot, at least in France. We don't seem to use it at all. The Range sells net curtains by the decimetre, but they don't brag about it. -- Max Demian Most fabrics are sold (retail) in multiples of 10cm, FWIW. I don't often see it referred to as a decimetre though No, it is convention to use powers of 1000 - so: 1/1,000,000 1/1000 1 1000 1,000,000 That's why modern rev counters are calibrated as 1, 2, 3 x1000 rpm rather than the older standard of 10, 20, 30 x100 rpm. (Coupled with that, having two gauges calibrated 10, 20, 30 - 80 is ripe for confusion.) So 10 cm rather than 1 dm. 100 m rather than 1 hm. That convention certainly applies to science and engineering. And, generally, in the UK we stick to it. But then we use cm rather than mm very frequently (and make frequent errors in the conversion - see about 1 in 4 Amazon specs) and the French use dm as well as cm and mm. So the convention does not seem to apply to daily life. We don't use dm much, though. But we are much more likely to use tens or hundreds of cm rather than 100s or 1000s of mm. -- Roger Hayter |
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"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
... That convention certainly applies to science and engineering. And, generally, in the UK we stick to it. But then we use cm rather than mm very frequently (and make frequent errors in the conversion - see about 1 in 4 Amazon specs) and the French use dm as well as cm and mm. So the convention does not seem to apply to daily life. We don't use dm much, though. But we are much more likely to use tens or hundreds of cm rather than 100s or 1000s of mm. The exception to this rule of "1 - 999.999 x 10^(multiple of 3)" is the gauge of railway tracks which is always specified as 1435 mm rather than 1.435 m (assuming it's not referred to as 4 ft 8 1/2"). Presumably the over-riding principle is to avoid the need for a decimal point. There may be other examples in civil engineering where this is done. |
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On 21/01/2019 16:50, jkn wrote:
On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 6:23:59 PM UTC, Max Demian wrote: On 13/01/2019 12:35, Roger Hayter wrote: I think the decimetre gets used quite a lot, at least in France. We don't seem to use it at all. The Range sells net curtains by the decimetre, but they don't brag about it. Most fabrics are sold (retail) in multiples of 10cm, FWIW. I don't often see it referred to as a decimetre though The only place you used to see a decimetre was old wooden 12" rulers, where the metric side had a third of the length in mm, a third in cm, and the rest just one decimetre - I suppose to teach kids the difference. The only use for the decimetre part was to write your name. g -- Max Demian |
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On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. No it hasn't it NASA only changed in about 1990 to metric. https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles. That implies they used miles during the Apollo missions. On board calculations used metric but teh atronauts wanted imperial on the displays including pounds of thrust and miles or feet per second. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. Irrelivant you can have the same number of steps and yuo can call them anything you like. |
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On 22/01/2019 11:19, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. No it hasn't it NASA only changed in about 1990 to metric. https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles. That implies they used miles during the Apollo missions. On board calculations used metric but teh atronauts wanted imperial on the displays including pounds of thrust and miles or feet per second. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. Irrelivant you can have the same number of steps and yuo can call them anything you like. But end up with (as the closest equivalent) 9900m, 10200m, 10500m, 10800m, which I would consider to be more prone to error than simple round, 1000s, which are certainly far easier to determine the odd and even levels for crossing aircraft in different directions. SteveW |
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On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:08:10 UTC, Steve Walker wrote:
On 22/01/2019 11:19, whisky-dave wrote: On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. |
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"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. No it hasn't it NASA only changed in about 1990 to metric. NASA isnt science, its engineering. https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles. That implies they used miles during the Apollo missions. On board calculations used metric but teh atronauts wanted imperial on the displays including pounds of thrust and miles or feet per second. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. Irrelivant you can have the same number of steps No you can't with the same nice tidy number describing them. and yuo can call them anything you like. But some names like flight level 320 and 325 are much easier to remember than others. |
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On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:55:35 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. |
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"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:08:10 UTC, Steve Walker wrote: On 22/01/2019 11:19, whisky-dave wrote: On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. No it hasn't it NASA only changed in about 1990 to metric. https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles. That implies they used miles during the Apollo missions. On board calculations used metric but teh atronauts wanted imperial on the displays including pounds of thrust and miles or feet per second. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. Irrelivant you can have the same number of steps and yuo can call them anything you like. But end up with (as the closest equivalent) 9900m, 10200m, 10500m, 10800m, which I would consider to be more prone to error They manage it with other things, Not where safety is so important. and they could change the flight levels like they can change anything. But arent that stupid. Only you are. They could just as easily go 9K9, 10K, 10k1, 10k2, Nothing like as safe as flight level 320, 325 with the odds for planes flying in one direction and the evens for the other. than simple round, 1000s, That's what metric is. But metric feet gives more levels while keeping the number simple. which are certainly far easier to determine the odd and even levels for crossing aircraft in different directions. Doesn't matter you could measure it in kebabs or any unit of measurement. But feet instead of meters gives more levels with nice tidy numbers. Fortunately no one will ever be silly enough to ask you how flight levels should be done. |
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On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:16:58 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:08:10 UTC, Steve Walker wrote: On 22/01/2019 11:19, whisky-dave wrote: On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. No it hasn't it NASA only changed in about 1990 to metric. https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles. That implies they used miles during the Apollo missions. On board calculations used metric but teh atronauts wanted imperial on the displays including pounds of thrust and miles or feet per second. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. Irrelivant you can have the same number of steps and yuo can call them anything you like. But end up with (as the closest equivalent) 9900m, 10200m, 10500m, 10800m, which I would consider to be more prone to error They manage it with other things, Not where safety is so important. Like the width of the seats yuo mean they wonlt change those iether. http://www.traveller.com.au/everyone...imetres-gmbjp7 It's a reflection of the behemoth that is US aviation, and the US still thinks and measures in feet and inches. Besides the US, the only countries that still use imperial measurements are Myanmar, Liberia and for just a few purposes, Britain. Australia has used metric measurements since 1970. You clueless ****ers don;t care anything about safety then. Another incongruity €“ as well as seat pitch, the seat-back screens on aircraft are also commonly expressed in inches, just like the screens on most satnav devices and iPhones. So phone and TV sizes are still expressed in inches because of safety and flight levelas are they ? and they could change the flight levels like they can change anything. But arent that stupid. Only you are. They could just as easily go 9K9, 10K, 10k1, 10k2, Nothing like as safe as flight level 320, 325 with the odds It's nothing to do with that. Fortunately no one will ever be silly enough to ask you how flight levels should be done. |
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"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:16:58 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:08:10 UTC, Steve Walker wrote: On 22/01/2019 11:19, whisky-dave wrote: On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. No it hasn't it NASA only changed in about 1990 to metric. https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles. That implies they used miles during the Apollo missions. On board calculations used metric but teh atronauts wanted imperial on the displays including pounds of thrust and miles or feet per second. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. Irrelivant you can have the same number of steps and yuo can call them anything you like. But end up with (as the closest equivalent) 9900m, 10200m, 10500m, 10800m, which I would consider to be more prone to error They manage it with other things, Not where safety is so important. Like the width of the seats yuo mean they wonlt change those iether. When this **** is the best you can manage, I'll be flushing your **** where it belongs. |
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On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:39:52 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:16:58 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:08:10 UTC, Steve Walker wrote: On 22/01/2019 11:19, whisky-dave wrote: On Monday, 21 January 2019 17:14:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Monday, 21 January 2019 13:08:08 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:59:40 UTC, Rod Speed wrote: "Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 18/01/2019 15:37, whisky-dave wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 12:58:35 UTC, Bob Martin wrote: I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with Rod Speed, but he's right. Flight levels are in feet, it's an aviation standard & won't be changed. But he;s wrong about the reason. The american won't change and that's that, NASA had to even thopugh they are american. They won't give up their feet any more than their guns. They could change if they needed to. Their military talks about 'klicks' for kilometres, due, I assume, to their propensity for joining other armies for foreign expeditions. Nope, it isnt for that reason. Give yourself an education. https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...military-slang That says what I said, ****wit. It proves the USA is going metric, The USA has always used the metric system in science in modern times and that doesnt mean that the USA is going metric either. No it hasn't it NASA only changed in about 1990 to metric. https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles. That implies they used miles during the Apollo missions. On board calculations used metric but teh atronauts wanted imperial on the displays including pounds of thrust and miles or feet per second. and one day aircraft heights may well also be measured in klicks rather than miles. Not a chance, because the flight level system works fine and there is nothing to be gained by it going metric because the flight level system has much neater numbers and more flight levels than doing it metric would do. Irrelivant you can have the same number of steps and yuo can call them anything you like. But end up with (as the closest equivalent) 9900m, 10200m, 10500m, 10800m, which I would consider to be more prone to error They manage it with other things, Not where safety is so important. Like the width of the seats yuo mean they wonlt change those iether. When this **** is the best you can manage, I'll be flushing your **** where it belongs. So you're still going to claim that phones screens are measured in inches because of flight levels. ? |
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