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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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