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On 6/17/25 17:02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:52:09 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> You missed the notation on the chart: those altitudes are in meters, not
>> feet.
> 
> We call them “metres”. Since when do we use Yank spelling for units that
> Yanks don’t even use anyway?

	For quite a while,. and we use centimeters 2.54 to one inch. parking 
meters too many in every block, kilometers and meters 1,000 in every 
kilometer .  As I was taught in HS in the 1950s.

	bliss