On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 1:35:25 AM UTC-4, jfitch wrote:
On Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 1:58:44 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 11:36:12 AM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
Why are you telling me this, Herb?Â* Do you feel better about yourself by
measuring a certain part of your anatomy in mm than in inches?

BTW Johathan's near mishap would not have happened had Shemp-Hirth and
"the rest of the world" had used the English system.

On 3/25/2018 8:10 AM, wrote:
On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 4:05:06 PM UTC-5, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
I took delivery of a brand new Ventus 2c, had the W&B done for my weight plus chute. Took the glider for it's first flight and thank goodness it was a great soaring day as it took me about two hours to be able to control it between 45-75 knots. Turns out they figured out the correct weight, say 5 pounds, wrote it in log book, but when they actually the weight in they used Kilograms, so I had 5 kg instead of 5 lb in tail. We figured it out, but I forgot the number, I was WELL aft of the aft most CG. I agree, check W&B.


On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 9:28:27 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 10:15:36 AM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
When I bought my SZD glider, I found that the previous owner had removed ~10 lbs of factory installed lead ballast from the nose. The ballast mount location was hidden behind an access panel.
- when I bought my Russia it came with 9 pounds of lead shot / epoxy mix permanently mounted in the nose, hidden behind the front bulkhead panel. Thankfully the seller told me about it. (And for me flying it, I had to add even more ballast in another forward location.) Be careful with the W&B!
Earth to Dan Marotta: here's another great reason to go metric, don't ya think? Glad you survived the Kilo-Bomb, Jonathan.

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Dan, 5J

Dan, I'm just puzzled that someone of your intelligence doesn't see the obvious supremacy of the metric system. Don't look backwards, join the French who came up with it and all the enlightened rest of the world (among them every single scientist). Your side has lost the battle long ago.

I've always puzzled why people think the metric system superior. All they did was throw out a bunch of units that were convenient, keeping just one that is arbitrary. If you are math challenged, use inches, microinches, kiloinches, nanoinches, megainches, etc. That's all the French did. So a nautical mile (actually a useful measure, being one degree of latitude) is 72.91 kiloinches or 1.852 kilometers. Can't see the wisdom of one over the other.. One nM works better for me.

People point weight, isn't it wonderful that a kilogram is a liter of water. But of course it isn't. A liter of water weighs 9.8 Newtons.

Sleeping in physics class?