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Aviation, with the annoying exception of feet as unit, largely eradicates such problematic "local standards" from professional usage. At some point you find you
by p_l 3y ago
Aviation, with the annoying exception of feet as unit, largely eradicates such problematic "local standards" from professional usage. At some point you find yourself simply using the "standard" ways even when you don't have to.
Yours sincerely, guilty of using ICAO phonetic alphabet with poor random office workers over the phone.
- marcosdumay 3y agoPeople just find the phonetic alphabet weird, but everybody gets it right every time. It's this good. Nobody suffers any setback from hearing it.
- p_l 3y agoSometimes they are really confused. And some idioms involved in it don't translate easily if you're not conversing in English, for example X-Ray or Yankee. Still most of it works out so less confusing than if I tried to jury rig something (traditional polish way was to use First Names that use given letter as the first letter, but that doesn't cover X or Y well, either)
- xxpor 3y agodon't forget pressure
- p_l 3y agommHg is, due to historical reasons, pretty well distributed, and hPa is also rather widely used. inHg appears to have way less penetration than feets for altitude or feet/minute for vertical speed (way inferior to meter/second IMHO).
- DarmokJalad1701 3y agoIn the US at least, inHg is used to specify the altimeter setting in aviation.
- p_l 3y agoUnlike exporting feet for altitude, inHg didn't take hold as much from what I've seen.