PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - GPS use for NAV when coded not in WGS84
View Single Post
Old 3rd January 2010 | 19:42
  #30 (permalink)  
galaxy flyer
Community Builder
20 Anniversary
 
Joined: Dec 2002
: ATP+Mil
Posts: 3,985
Likes: 568
From: Where the Quaboag River flows, USA
Rudderrat

Technically, the ICAO is standardized on Hpa and Mbs is a UK exception. And so is inches in the US, an exception. I still call it millibars, though. Kgs is a unit of mass, while Lbs is a unit of Force. 1 kg would be the same here or on the moon, while a pound here is 1/6th of a pound on the moon.

GF
galaxy flyer is offline  
Reply