On Saturday 15 Jan 2011 11:30, Will Hand scribbled:


"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article ,
Phil Layton writes:
It looks like the aviation standard will become hectopascals before the
year is out...

Much easier to say :-(

Some of us are still struggling to forget inches of mercury.

Good grief! They went out in the Stone Age. I'm an SI man, Pascals (OK
hecto if you wish), Kelvin (OK C if you wish), Metres, Kg but I do like my
wind speeds in knots :-)


The nautical mile and knot were very convenient units for an old rule-of-
thumb forecaster like myself. One nautical mile is one minute of latitude so
something moving at, say, 20 kts will move 2 degrees of latitude in six
hours.

(A rule-of-thumb forecaster is one who measures movement of features on a
chart with his thumb.)

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