I have recently started learning to fly helis and picked up a book I bought a few years ago (published 1997) and was taken aback to find calculations of moments measured in Foot/Pounds.
I was wondering if the units of measurements in the industry is still dominated by the imperial system? Do ATC still call heights in feet? Are the JAA exams in imperial or metric?
I hope I can learn/do the exams in Meters and Kilograms... none of my schooling was in the "old system"
- its almost like speaking a different language.