I give up, after many, many years!

On May 24, 10:47*pm, Tina wrote:
Now come on, the gap between a chemist and a non chemist would not be
1000 feet, not down under. It might be 300 meters
On May 24, 8:38 am, terry wrote:

We are mulitunital down here Tina, in aviation we measure ht in feet
and horizontal distance in m. So our VFR rules are to remain clear of
cloud by 1000 feet vertically and 1500m horizontally. I kid you not.

Terry

Terry, I was thinking more of your chemistry background. Even here we
tend to measure, the the chemisty world, distances in meters. Well,
nanometers.

I really did not know aviation down under used English units, thanks
for the education. Are altimeters set in inches of Hg?




May 24, 9:14 am, terry wrote:
On May 24, 10:47 pm, Tina wrote: Now come on, the gap between a chemist and a non chemist would not be
1000 feet, not down under. It might be 300 meters
On May 24, 8:38 am, terry wrote:

We are mulitunital down here Tina, in aviation we measure ht in feet
and horizontal distance in m. So our VFR rules are to remain clear of
cloud by 1000 feet vertically and 1500m horizontally. I kid you not.

Terry

On May 24, 11:58*pm, Tina wrote:
Terry, I was thinking more of your chemistry background. Even here we
tend to measure, the the chemisty world, distances in meters. Well,
nanometers.

I really did not know aviation down under used English units, thanks
for the education. Are altimeters set in inches of Hg?

Tina, we are basically metric in Australia but as I understand it
feet are used worldwide for altitude in aviation. Our altimeter
subscales are in HPa ( although I still call them mbars). 1013.2 HPa
=29.92 in Hg. In the petrochemical industry where I work we use a
real mish mash of units. For pressure I am forever having to
interchange between KPa, mmHg (torr), psi and bars.
Terry

terry writes:

Tina, we are basically metric in Australia but as I understand it
feet are used worldwide for altitude in aviation.

Except Russia and China, IIRC.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

terry writes:

Tina, we are basically metric in Australia but as I understand it
feet are used worldwide for altitude in aviation.

Except Russia and China, IIRC.


You couldn't recall anthing since you've never flown there.



Bertie