Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

On 6/17/25 8:02 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:52:09 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

You missed the notation on the chart: those altitudes are in meters, not
feet.

 We call them “metres”. Since when do we use Yank spelling for units that
Yanks don’t even use anyway?

   The sci/tech side DOES use those units and has for
   a very long time.
   Meters, metres (my spellcheck doesn't like that)
   are convenient, but centimeters/millimeters are
   too small - the English units are more, well,
   'human scale'.
   Oh well, the USA could have stuck to Whitworth
   measures  :-)