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Happy editing! Lklundin (talk) 08:30, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Metrication in the United States. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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Edit in good faith
I just wanted to edit the article to correct the information there. The assumption that Commercial Aviation uses the US customary units due to US influence is not true. Nautical Miles and knots are used because of international navigation technques used and copied from naval navigation. When navigating globally with sextant and reducing this to longtitude and latitude the use of the nautical mile is the only way to go before GPS. This is because the Nautical Mile is defined by being 1/60th (one minute) of one degree of Latitude. (1/(360 * 60)) of the circumference of the earth). These techniques have been perfected around 1615, long before the United States even existed.

Refering to the altitude information:

Altitudes are kept in feet in stead of SI units to distingish between different types of units without adding extra additional and confusing information to the value/unit communicated. Feet = Always pressure altitude (this is not the same as true altitude, because aviators do not use true positions/altitudes for safety reasons) (local pressure) Flight level in hundreds of feet = Pressure Altitude but per definition corrected for 1013 mbar. Miles = Always Nautical miles to define (track) distances in the horizontal plane. Usualy distances between and to waypoints. Kilometers/meters = Visibility both for weather and visual distances looking out the window.

These conventions reduce communication errors and this improve safety.

THIS is the reason the whole world has converted to conventional units NOT the US political influence or prestige

I am not trying to troll, but i cant stand incorrect statements on wikipedia. Sorry for the disruptions. 09:33, 5 February 2018 (UTC)