Hate to be a cynic but it seems unlikely the pilot was doing a conversion and its a leap to say he was. I have no clue where they get their weather data from but since its probably from the airport and the National Weather service stations there it is probably provided in English like all the other data they receive. At domestic airports I can not imagine the pilots demanding the ground computers send up the data in English so they do not have to worry about converting it. Nice thought but the pilot was probably just multitasking at the time (reading instruments, sipping coffee, snoozing (haha).
Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372 >>> Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/09/04 01:54AM >>> Dear Euric, Doesn't it fill you full of confidence in the pilot of your aircraft when you know, that instead of flying the plane, he or she is sitting up there wrestling with the mathematics of a calculator or a conversion tables to convert from one temperature to another! Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 2004-03-09 10.25, Chimpsarecute at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I went to South Carolina a few weeks back, the pilots gave the > temperature only in Fahrenheit over the intercom. > > On the way down, the pilot hesitated for a second before he stated the > temperature was "about 35�F". On the return flight, the pilot hesitated a > good 5 s before giving the temperature. It was obvious to me they were > doing conversions. > > Euric > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, 2004-03-08 07:28 > Subject: [USMA:29122] Re: Temperature > > >>> Of Pat Naughtin >>> I have heard that the USA Weather Service changed to degrees Celsius in >> 1995 >> >> At 0800Z on 1 July 1996, the FAA started using Celsius. The National > Weather >> Service and the Department of Defense acted in parallel. The formal scope > of >> the change was limited to aviation weather. >> >> http://www.asy.faa.gov/safety_products/NewformatsBrochure.htm >> >> > http://metar.noaa.gov/table_master.jsp?sub_menu=no&show=text_overview.jsp&ti >> tle=title_program_overview >> >> >> >
