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Aug 21, 2008 | 12:09 am

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Originally Posted by arf04

I expect that this is because in flight planning Imperial units are used and the data pilots and FA's use to provide announcements comes from flight planning documents, etc. (eg ATC uses feet for altitude). When there are moving displays, I think they are in metric and Imperial.

Imperial is still used in the aviation world, especially in North America, to a large extent.

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