"Carter, Baron" wrote on 2002-07-22 13:33 UTC: > I would like to see proposals from Baron and Marcus (and from any other > experienced pilots) on their recommendations for altitudes and bearings > for a new set of corridors, optimized in rounded m and km, of course, > with *no* consideration of present corridors in feet and kilofeet. > > If there is agreement, we might want to promote them to world aviation > authorities as a new standard, say, for 2005 implementation.
To find out, whether there have been studies and proposals on this in the past (and I'd be surprised if there haven't!), write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iata.org/ and Federal Aviation Administration 800 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20591 Room 810 http://www.faa.gov/ and then let's all report here what we get. Markus P.S.: Good compact overview of US metrication: http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
