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Old 31st Jan 2014, 17:52
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The logical answer is to adopt metric measurement throughout the industry, so distances are metres or kilometres and speeds are kilometres per hour. Atmospheric pressure units would be hectopascals and standard vertical separation 300m, which is almost identical to 1000 ft. Low-level (high workload) altimeter missets would be reduced by use of a universal Transition Altitude of 6000 metres and eventually by adoption of GPS altimetry.
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