Re:The maddening mess of airport codes [video]
by someweirdperson on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:22PM
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> anywhere else but the US and never heard of units like feet, miles
The miles typically used in the USA are not the nautic miles used in aviation.
But what's worse, some air speed indicators show different units than knots (nm/h), depending on the origin of the aircraft mph or km/h.
Not just regular pilots, but also (here in the EU) operators of drones under A2 classification.
And let me tell you, it sucks, particularly if you're from anywhere else but the US and never heard of units like feet, miles and inches and what they mean outside of "this exists, is only used in the US and that's it" once in school. The only thing in a standard unit there is the temperature, and that I guess is only the case because "0C" is way more obvious as the freezing point of water.
I get it, this dates back to hundreds of years of nautical practice, but everybody else has long since shifted to metric...