(Steve B) wrote in message . com...
I think in Feet Per Minute... I must be from a different country.

How do you convert Kts per Sec / Meters per sec / Kilometers etc... to
Feet per minute

Thanks

While the other responses give the data, there is one point I'd like
to add. Within about 1% accuracy, 100 fpm = 1 kt = 1/2 m/sec. Forget
the 0.508. Who has the mental accuracy (or instrument accuracy) to
work to three significant figures?

It struck me as strange that, within this roughly 1% accuracy,
nautical miles make more sense than either statute miles or the metric
system. When they standardized on the metric system, it's interesting
that they did not decimalize time. We still have 60 sec/min and 60
min/hour. So m/sec and km/hr do not have any nice relation, at least
for those of us who think decimally. But converting fpm to kts is easy
because 6000 (the approximate number of feet in a nautical mile) is
divisible by 60. So, when I have a 1% upgrade on a takeoff runway and
take off at 60 kts, it knocks 60 fpm off my climb rate. Not too much.
But a 2% grade knocks 120 fpm off, getting to be a bit more of a
concern.

Too bad a nautical mile isn't exactly 6000 feet. Or that the metric
guys didn't change to 100,000 seconds per day (now there are 86,400)
and break the day into 10 hours, each with 100 minute, each with 100
seconds. I guess it says something about how deeply ingrained time is
in our culture that they didn't, or couldn't, mess with it. (See E T
Hall's "The Dance of Life" if you're interested in delving further.
It's at least as good in my opinion as his better known "Beyond
Culture.")

Martin