hitman Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Yup ! http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Metric/pub814.cfm § 204. Metric system authorized. - It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. (14 Stat. 339, Adopted July 28,1866) This only applies to exports, as the US is the only country worldwide to still use standard measurements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ven Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 I work in automotive industry in Detroit. Designers speak in imperial. Engineers speak in metric. A total mess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscCtrl Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Actually its less than .5kg...closer to 0.453592 kg, and how impressive is that? Meh fair point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Granted the automotive industry is swapping over, slowly but surely, but volumes, speed and tire size will be pretty standardized for many years to come. But the nuts and bolts holding the vehicles together will almost always be metric. At least thats how it looked to me when I was working on cars still. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allochtoon Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 I work in automotive industry in Detroit. Designers speak in imperial. Engineers speak in metric. A total mess... Seems to me the engineers know what they are talking about, the designers on the other hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogue_blade Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 While I prefer metric myself, you can change the F2 status bar to imperial in Options/Difficulty. Click the "Imperial" radio button (default is "Metric"). This won't change what you see in the cockpit but it does change the measurement units for the F2 status bar and the Mission Editor. Rich OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG that makes life so much better [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Metrics sucks...long live the imperial system. :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironhand Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Whats so great about metrics? ...Till then Ill drink my gallon of beer and eat my 21oz of delicious porterhouse...NOT my 3.7843L of beer and my 453.59 grams of dazed and confused dead cow. That's because you're thinking about it backwards. If we switched to metric we'd be talking about our 4L of beer (1.056688 gal.) and .6kg (21.16435 oz) of steak. That's what I've always found curious about our past attempts to adopt the metric standard. We didn't want, for example, to accrue the cost of moving road signs. So instead of moving the sign to read an even number of kilometers (eg 10km, 6.21 miles) to the next exit, we kept the sign where it was and made the metric measurement a decimal (eg 6 miles, 9.66km). Rich 1 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1...CR6IZ7crfdZxDg _____ Win 10 Pro x64, ASUS Z97 Pro MoBo, Intel i7-4790K, EVGA GTX 970 4GB, HyperX Savage 32GB, Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD, 2x Seagate Hybrid Drive 2TB Raid 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscCtrl Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Makes me say, "I wanna kill me an engineer!!!" :D As long as you do it metrically that's ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscCtrl Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 5.56mm. :D That's more like it! none of this 2"x4" nonesense :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 No. .203 caliber!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 BAH. Typo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericinexile Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 There are just two advantages to Imperial use in aviation from my experience: 1) A Nautical Mile conforms to one second of a degree of latitude (or longitude at the equator). This makes quick nav checks and planning relatively easy. 2) 1000 feet seems to be a very adequate vertical separation for planes on the same airway--although wake can still be a problem. With meters, we either lose that nice round number or we are stuck trying to fit all those airplanes into much wider vertical margins. Both of these issues only really apply to civil aviation and have no bearing on this discussion. And I otherwise agree, Imperial is archaic and cumbersome. Metric is unquestionably superior. The only reason we Americans haven't switched is because Reagan had everyone convinced that the Metric system was an instrument of Communists, Liberals, Scientists, and Gays. Smokin' Hole Smokin' Hole My DCS wish list: Su25, Su30, Mi24, AH1, F/A-18C, Afghanistan ...and frankly, the flight sim world should stop at 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team Olgerd Posted June 3, 2007 ED Team Share Posted June 3, 2007 EscCtrl explained it very well. Also it is very strange to measure let's say IAS and vertical speed (both are the same - speeds) in different units. In our development we are using SI (Systeme International d’Unites) - Kilogram, Meter, Second, Ampere, Kelvin... 1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] К чему стадам дары свободы? Их должно резать или стричь. Наследство их из рода в роды Ярмо с гремушками да бич. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostie Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 I work in automotive industry in Detroit. Designers speak in imperial. Engineers speak in metric. A total mess... Probably because its easier to talk about what you know best (imperial) but easier to work with metric.:D "[51☭] FROSTIE" #55 51st PVO "BISONS" Fastest MiG pilot in the world - TCR'10 https://100kiap.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team Olgerd Posted June 3, 2007 ED Team Share Posted June 3, 2007 Probably because its easier to talk about what you know best (imperial) but easier to work with metric.:D Judging by my work (ED), designers are always a bit more conservative (in technical sense, not art)... ;) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] К чему стадам дары свободы? Их должно резать или стричь. Наследство их из рода в роды Ярмо с гремушками да бич. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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