Originally Posted by
MaxReheat
If you would give links to airporox reports where this has occurred I'd be pleased to reconsider.
The unit added on to the number is immaterial. If a US crew were going to set inches, would it Hectopascal, rather than 'millibar' or 'smarties' really have saved the day?
If the CAA say you gotta do it, then you gotta do it.
I was on the Phraseology Committee where it was discussed and it was a bone of contention for several other members who didn't want to add the word hectopascals in the same way we had been required to add millibars on the grounds no other country did it.