Sujet : Re: [OT] Languages and the metric system
De : news (at) *nospam* cct-net.co.uk (Chris Townley)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 28. Aug 2024, 13:42:41
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On 28/08/2024 13:24, Simon Clubley wrote:
On 2024-08-27, Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
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In the world of aviation, and that isn't such a small world, the standard is
English. If there is a pilot in the area that requests all communications are
in English, then that is the rule, at least as I remember it. That way everyone
knows what everyone else is saying, and doing.
>
Interesting you bring that up. Not directly related to language, but the
aviation world is now officially metric. It's just that for now, you are
allowed to keep the current units for legacy purposes.
The aviation world is not metric.
In the UK we use feet for altitude, knots for speed, nautical miles for distance, HectoPascals (millibars) for pressure, and gallons (UK or US) or litres for fuel
Hardly metric!
-- Chris
[OT] Languages and the metric system
Re: [OT] Languages and the metric system