N941WR
Legacy Member
In another thread question why NM vs MPH IronFlight wrote:
My question is why when you listen to the current weather they give everything in imperial units (Feet, miles, etc.) except the temperature, which they give in degress Celsius. Why is that?Ahhh...the eternal question!
As a trained Aeronautical Engineer, it was beaten in to me that the REAL aviation world always does things in knots, and my papers would be failed if i used any other units...
As a Commercial and Instrument Pilot, I have been trained to do everything in knots, because that is what the ATC world uses.
In the Flight operations world in which I live, we do everything in knots because that is the engineering standard (see first bullet above...)
Many people like to use mph because the numbers are bigger....
(sells more airplanes because they seem faster - same reason that $9.95 is better than $10 if you're selling somethign...)