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  #11  
Old March 16th, 2007, 05:36 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Dave Patterson
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Since the poster wondered if he got good 'mileage' - a term widely
understood and more manageable than 'kilometerage', let me
chime in and say 'yes' he did. I use about 6 to 6.5 litres per 100 km in
my
VW Golf station wagon around the area, and all the neighbors assume
that I must not drive like a real South African. On hiway
driving, it's closer to 5.5. litres per 100 km.

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Old March 16th, 2007, 05:38 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Dave Patterson
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Wildpicture wrote:

Fuel is very inexpensive in South Africa


Not to a South African. That's almost a little arrogant.
Put yourself in their shoes and you will have a different
point of view about petrol prices.

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Old March 16th, 2007, 06:33 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Johan W. Elzenga
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Marc Lurie wrote:

Feet is still used for aviation for the same reason, and because of
the fact that flight levels are easily calculated using convenient
"1000 feet" gaps as opposed to "305 metres". Can you imagine ATC
saying to a pilot "Descend to flight level 1066.8" instead of "Descend
to flight level 3500" :-)


Big deal. He would just order them to descend to 1100 or 1000. And 1000
feet gaps are no more or less logical than say 500 meter gaps.


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Old March 16th, 2007, 07:16 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
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Dave Patterson schreef:
Wildpicture wrote:
Fuel is very inexpensive in South Africa

Not to a South African. That's almost a little arrogant.
Put yourself in their shoes and you will have a different
point of view about petrol prices.


That is just what I wrote in the next line, which you haven't quoted. :-)

But still fuel is inexpensive there when compared to other parts of the
world. In Europe fuel is easily 3 times more expensive.

Regards,
Hans



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Old March 17th, 2007, 04:20 AM posted to rec.travel.africa
Dave Patterson
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Wildpicture wrote:

Dave Patterson schreef:
Wildpicture wrote:
Fuel is very inexpensive in South Africa



Not to a South African. That's almost a little arrogant.
Put yourself in their shoes and you will have a different
point of view about petrol prices.


That is just what I wrote in the next line, which you haven't quoted. :-)

But still fuel is inexpensive there when compared to other parts of the
world. In Europe fuel is easily 3 times more expensive.

Regards,
Hans


No need to quote you further.
You told us all we needed to know in the line I did quote.


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Old March 17th, 2007, 05:16 AM posted to rec.travel.africa
Scott Elliot
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Canada has gone metric too, but some of us old farts still think in miles
per gallon. However, mpg is meaningless to our kids who think in litres per
100 km. To them smaller is better. The only time we see miles per gallon
ratings any more is on ads that come across the US border, and then they
don't use a real gallon so that's not very helpful either unless you are
good at multiplying by 5/4 in your head.

Scott

"Marc Lurie" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:21:06 +0100, Wildpicture
wrote:


P.s. Besides Americans, nobody in the world counts in Miles per Gallon.
We only know kilomters and liters. :-)))


Not so Hans. The British still talk in MPG as well. :-o

Marc



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Old March 17th, 2007, 04:07 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Corné
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Fuel is very inexpensive in South Africa


For labourers with the minimum wage (R1000 per month) it is a bit different
off course!

Regards from the warm bush (37 Celcius),

Corné.

www.amukela.com



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Old March 22nd, 2007, 08:28 AM posted to rec.travel.africa
Marc Lurie[_1_]
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You're corect of course, but in stacking aircraft up over a busy
airport, you'd be able to stack far fewer aircraft using 500m spacing.

Essentially, it's "RTC" : "Resistance to Change" :-)

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:33:06 +0100, lid (Johan W.
Elzenga) wrote:



Big deal. He would just order them to descend to 1100 or 1000. And 1000
feet gaps are no more or less logical than say 500 meter gaps.

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Old April 11th, 2007, 07:26 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
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Marc Lurie wrote:
Can you imagine ATC saying to a pilot
"Descend to flight level 1066.8" instead of
"Descend to flight level 3500"


Quote follows:
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http://www.hkatc.gov.hk/HK_AIP/aic/AIC%2006-03.pdf
The use of metric altitudes and levels in some airspace adjacent to
Hong Kong FIR requires the use of both Standard (feet) and Metric
(metres) units within Hong Kong airspace. To avoid any confusion with
level information the following standard phraseology shall be
applied :
a) when referring to an ALTITUDE the unit shall always be specified,
e.g. 'descend to six thousand feet' or 'climb to two thousand seven
hundred metres';
b) when referring to FLIGHT LEVELS only the METRIC unit shall be
specified, e.g. 'descend to Flight Level one five zero' or 'climb to
Flight Level eight thousand four hundred metres'.
*******************************************

 




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