Feet Per Minute Conversion Question

(Steve B) wrote in message . com...

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

Knots per second would be a unit of acceleration, since knots are
already a unit of velocity. One knot is one nautical mile per hour.

I have two "older" gliders, each with 2 varios (4 varios total). 1
vario reads in feet per second, another in meters per second, another
in knots, and the last one in 100's of feet per second...

I have settled on thinking in terms of "knots" because 1) that's what
everyone else uses where I fly (so I can easily decipher thermal
strength callouts on the radio and so forth) and 2) for all practical
purposes 100 fpm is one knot, as others have correctly pointed out.

-Doug

Iwrote:
I have two "older" gliders, each with 2 varios (4 varios total). 1
vario reads in feet per second, another in meters per second, another
in knots, and the last one in 100's of feet per second...

Pardon me, that should read "100's of feet per *minute*..."

-Doug