John Kim:
:> Richard, nearly everything in the aero- portion of the aerospace industry
:> is in english units. Altitude is in feet, velocity is in mph or fps, fuel
:> is in pounds, and engines are horsepower or pounds of thrust. The only
:> major aeronautical sector that uses metric is (was?) the Soviets.
Bertil::
: However, the Swedish AF uses metrics even on the altimeters, while the civil
:aviation uses feets and stuff.
My understanding that the units in use (the ones pilots gets to use, rather
than the ones the engineers use) are metric everywhere except the good
ol' (obvious name of north American nation deleted). Consequently,
all international pilots need toknow both.
However English is supposed to be the "standard" language for commo...
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