The I believe the Communist countries of Russia and China use metric flight
levels and have used it for many decades. How pilots adjust I don't
remember. I have heard that on some rare occasions safety problems were
encountered when crossing into their flight space.
Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 4:52 PM
Subject: [USMA:38326] Re: Plane and train schedules was Brand New Phone
Stan,
I lifted the following
<<
China, Mongolia, Russia and many CIS countries use flight levels specified
in metres. Aircraft entering these areas normally make a slight climb or
descent to adjust for this.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level
I have no way of verifying it.
Regards
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "STANLEY DOORE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: [USMA:38321] Re: Plane and train schedules was Brand New Phone
I was under the impression that the world flies at foot-based flight
levels.
To change to all-metric entails a massive cost of changing altimeter
measurement and display equipment and training pilots. All of these are
based on safety. New commercial planes have soft displays so it would be
less costly to change displays on them, however, the need for education
and
training still exists for pilots, many of whom are private small plane
people.
It's much like changing gasoline pumps for cars. A large percentage of
them
were mechanical-based back during the 1970s when there was a big push to
go
metric. However, virtually all pumps today have soft displays and the
pumps
fuel-measuring devices are easily switched between metric and English
units.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:17 AM
Subject: [USMA:38313] Re: Plane and train schedules was Brand New Phone
> On Thursday 22 March 2007 05:21, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> > Has anyone thought what it would take to get all countries to
>> > switch to metric
>> > flight levels?
>>
>> Are you referring to altitude?
>
> Yes. Each country or region has a system in which planes flying in
certain
> directions keep certain altitudes: those flying at 10.0 km fly
northeast,
> those at 10.3 km fly southeast, those at 10.6 km fly southwest, and so
on.
> The assignment of directions to flight levels varies by country. See
> "Flight
> level" on Wikipedia.
>
> phma
>
>
