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Subject: Re: Cost of driving in SA Posted on: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:33:06 +0100

Marc Lurie wrote:

> Feet is still used for aviation for the same reason, and because of
> the fact that flight levels are easily calculated using convenient
> "1000 feet" gaps as opposed to "305 metres". Can you imagine ATC
> saying to a pilot "Descend to flight level 1066.8" instead of "Descend
> to flight level 3500" :-)

Big deal. He would just order them to descend to 1100 or 1000. And 1000
feet gaps are no more or less logical than say 500 meter gaps.


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