"Gene Nygaard" wrote in message
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 08:58:24 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:


"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:22:47 GMT, lid (Goran Larsson)
wrote:

In article ,
Tarver Engineering wrote:

We sold a good number of metric altitude repeaters for Corporate
operation
in Eastern European airspace prior to the latest change. The air
traffic
control system was only capable of producing altitude assignments
in
meters.

Yes, but are your *absolutely* sure that all "Western aircraft use
English units"?

For altitude and airspeed, they do. I'm absolutely sure. ICAO says
so.

And since nautical miles are a measurement system based on the earth,
they
work out real well for navigation.

Not when your aviation charts are drawn to a metric scale.

How many meters are there between seconds of arc at the Equator?

He he ...