[time-nuts] FW: IIMorrow GPS units non-functional since Sunday

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Aug 20 03:24:57 EDT 2008


In message <f616e0f80808200001y17bb86d0m14fed6270f1ec8ff at mail.gmail.com>, "Jim 
Palfreyman" writes:
>When I fly in a commercial plane, the display in front of me shows its speed
>in km/h and height in metres. The pilot announces the same.
>
>I would have thought that if any group of people could convert quickly it
>would be airline pilots. 

Ahh, but it's not just the pilots is it ?

It's also all the instruments in the planes, all the lingo with ATC and
all the maps.

A particular worry would be flightlevels, where it would get really
nasty if somebody confuses feet and meter near a major airport.

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