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While you're at it, please shift to metric! Feet for altitude, nautical miles for distance, statute miles for visibility, metres for runway visual range (most often)...

Take a plane that has a glide ratio of 1:10, say. It's 1 km high. How far can it glide? 10 km.

Now it's 3000 ft high. How far can it glide, in nautical miles?



My mental math told me ~5 nautical miles, I checked and I was off by 0.07. Metric would be nice but most people who have flown can do the rough math in their heads.


Interestingly, glider pilots in metric countries use metric units.




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