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Can people please stop using the Imperial System??
I was reading an article of the Airliners.net forum on another near miss
mid-air collision during a perpendicular take-off at JFK.
One guy said :"They spoke of 500 feet seperation."
Another guy replied :"I heard it was more like half a mile."
Now here, with the metric system, when someone says "half a kilometer",
everyone else knows it's 500 meters, because 1 kilometer is 1000 meters.
It's a nice round number.
Metric System
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10 millimeters = 1 centimeter
100 centimeters = 1 meter
1000 meters = 1 kilometer
Imperial System
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100 inches = 8.33 feet
1000 inches = 27 yards
1 mile = 5.280 feet
1 mile = 1.760 yards
Half a mile = 880 yards or 2.640 feet.
I'm sorry, but this system just makes no sense.
Where's the logic?
Or is my vision towards the Imperial System just slightly skewed?
Cos it's giving me a headache everytime.
I'm just glad Google provides a simple way to convert one to the other.
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Marcel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (HC153VE)
"Some wars last for decades. Others last for three periods."
