The automated airport weather stations operated by the FAA report temps to pilots in Celsius, which is probably why pilots sometimes announce destination temps in both Celsius and Fahrenheit even on domestic flights (as happened on a San Francisco to Burbank flight I took a couple of weeks ago). I wanted to write the guy a thank you letter. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carleton MacDonald To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: 04/27/2008 9:14 PM Subject: [USMA:40812] Metric in Aviation
From airliners.net, a discussion of the metric system in aviation. Carleton http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/3957830/
