So David Megginson says: [...]
> ditto for the Gimli Glider, the Air Canada 767 that ran out of > fuel at altitude and was brought down safely on a drag strip (former > runway) in Gimli, Manitoba: > > http://www.frontier.net/~wadenelson/successstories/gimli.html > > Air Canada had just switched to SI for fuel, and when the fuel gauge > became U/S, the copilot took a dipstick measurement and used the wrong > calculation. After reading this story I can't help but note another advantage of SI: easy-to-remember figures. 0 degrees celsius is where water freezes, 100 degrees is where water boils, and a liter of water weighs one kilogram. *) If the people on that 767 had known about that last one they would have instantly seen that there is no way 11,430 liters of fuel can weigh 20,400 kilograms. That would mean it's almost twice as heavy as water. Regards, - Jacco *) I know, its *mass* is a kilogram. It weighs about 9.81 Newtons. -- +-------------------------+ The time is 16:04 on Thursday May 16 2002. | IRL: Jacco van Schaik | Outside it's 21 degrees with a gentle breeze | mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | from the northwest. Inside, xmms is playing | URL: www.frontier.nl | "Hurricane (Bob Dylan)" by Ani Difranco. +-------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
