On Apr 18, 3:33*am, "Barry" wrote:
Actually, there are a lot of anomolies around the world. Eastern Europe
and Russia doggedly cling to using windspeed in Meters/second and have
reluctantly accepted using feet for altitude, though there are still a
lot of published platform altitudes of something like "2746 feet"

I learned to fly in France in the 1980s and they used a weird combination of
feet and meters. *Altimeters read in feet,and minimum safe altitudes were
charted in feet. *But charted obstructions and airspace restrictions were in
meters. *Everyone set QFE (altimeter reads zero on the ground) for takeoff,
then reset the altimeter to QNH if leaving the traffic pattern. *Flight levels
began at 3500 feet.

Can any Europeans out there tell me if it's still like that?


Its still like that in australia, we use feet for altitude , but we
use meters for horizontal distance. OurVFR rules are to stay clear of
cloud by 1000 feet vertically and 1500 m horizontally. Hpa for
pressure except tire pressure which is psi