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   by aviation_ 7y ago

   I have the same experience. I'm an American expat so sometimes people will explicitly call out celsius for my benefit or as a joke, but yeah, nobody ever says celsius when they talk about the temperature here. "What's the tem
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   by aviation_ 7y ago

   I don't live in the UK but nearby in Europe. I know a handful of Brits but have never heard them express temperatures in Fahrenheit (and they know I'm American, so if they switched I always figured it would be for my benefit). Is
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   by aviation_ 7y ago

   US Aviation in the sense of the "aero" part of aerospace is still very much US Customary Units. I don't have enough experience with the "space" part of aerospace to comment on that. We still use pounds of thrust, sl