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Old 19th May 2015, 10:46
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Originally Posted by HEATHROW DIRECTOR
BEagle Well said, sir. I have heard the inches/millibars (in my day) confusion with American crews many times.
There would be no confusion if everybody used inches....

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In an industry where confusion can and is a killer of vast numbers of people, I am utterly boggle smoggled that there are so many variables. We have, litres, US gallons, Imp gallons, pounds, kilogrammes, knots, miles, kilometres, feet, metres, millibars/hectothingies, inches hg, and we wonder why things go wrong now and again.
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