Yeah, what Larry said.
Soon as they start marking maps with knots to show distance from place to place, then it will make sense to use them.
Yeah, what Larry said.
Soon as they start marking maps with knots to show distance from place to place, then it will make sense to use them.
Real pilots use knots............
The military use knots. The airlines use knots. ATC uses knots. Team RV uses knots.
You can use furlongs per fortnight in your own airplane. Use knots only if you want to fit in.
A mile is based on 1,000 Roman paces.
Who uses Mach?
A mile is based on 1,000 Roman paces.
A nautical mile is one minute of latitude.
Charts use latitude and longitude, and thus have distance scales all over them.
Sectionals are charts.
But if you want to use miles all you haft to do is measure the distance against the latitude scale to determine the number of minutes multiply by 6,080 (apx) and divide by 5,280.
Who uses Mach?
Knots are for ships. No one cares how fast a ship goes. No one (the general public) knows how fast a knot is so you have to sit there and explain it every time.
MPH is for airplanes. Most pilots uses statue miles to a destination when traveling they usually don't use nautical miles. There is that term again "nautical".... is for ships! Why confuse the issue?
I hereby declare MPH the official measure of speed for RV's.
Use Knots. It is the standard. MPH is unprofesional, and braging
BTW......... How did the 201 Mooney get it's name?
Most pilots uses statue miles to a destination when traveling they usually don't use nautical miles.
RV's are fast enough to use Knots and get respectable numbers..well OK, not the RV12...
The serious answer is one talks to ATC continuosly while flying IFR, speed comes up quite often (either cus there is a Cessna put put in front of you or a jet behind you) and your better off using the same language.
As an engineer that is fluent in both metric and Imperial units, I have to say the metric system is by far the best.
You have no idea how hard it is for an English guy to admit that anything invented in France is better..
So Larry, just how many buckets of popcorn have you enjoyed since stirring this pot up, eh!
And "nobody cares about how fast a ship goes"?...I dunno, how fast the carrier was going made a fair bit of difference in the "quality" of the air behind it (more natural wind = less burble), so we cared how fast it was going! (We also cared how fast it was going when it was headed into port! )
Hey Mike, all those Class B, C, D, Mode C, etc rings and things on charts (and yes, in GPSs too)...what kinda miles are those in...hmmmm
So there are a lotta knots out there...the only ones I don't like are the ones that get in my headset cord...pesky dern things!
MPH sounds good to U.S. race fans (500 MPH Unlimiteds and 400 MPH Sports does sound pretty cool, ya gotta admit)...and it sounds good to U.S. airline passengers (they'll get there faster...and happier...at 500-600 MPH...yessir!). If you're quick, or do it 6-10 times a day (outbound and inbound...AMHIK), you can convert KTS to MPH on the fly, just like C to F temps, which we also have to do, since C is on the paperwork, but is still a mystery to most folks here (and as Bob Ax said...we were going to be converted by 1975!
If you really want to brag, state top speed in MPH, and stall speed in KTS, then you win on both ends! Don't screw it up though!
And have you guys forgotten? Girls like knotty boys...so what are ya thinkin'!?!
Cheers,
Bob
I am just having some fun. It's January, cold, windy, a little "cabin fever" setting in. " No one cares how fast a ship goes!" Did I really say that?
Your fun was taken seriously by the majority of VAFers. How come nobody uses metrics? I heard one favoring Mach but the unit was not in the poll.