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Old 26th May 2014, 07:06
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Fareastdriver
 
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All compasses are decimalised nowadays. All the binary calculations in the FMS (Flight Management System) are sent to the compass card as a proportion of the whole circle. It's only because pilots can't understand the logic of the calculation that we still use degrees to steer by.

It keeps air trafickers happy as well.

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That's what I learned on. In the end I was stepping out of one aircraft with Knots and Feet into another one with Kilometres and Metres. Just to make in easy the zeros where in different places.
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