Feet Per Minute Conversion Question

I think in Feet Per Minute... I must be from a different country.

How do you convert Kts per Sec / Meters per sec / Kilometers etc... to
Feet per minute

Thanks

feet per sec X 0.508 = meters per sec

This from the 1987 SSA MEMBERSHIP HANDBOOK.

Haven't seen an updated book in 20 years. It has lots of useful information,
like this in it.
JJ Sinclair

Looks like they made the mistake of assuming that a nautical mile was 6000
feet when it's actually 6080 ft



"JJ Sinclair" wrote in message
...
feet per sec X 0.508 = meters per sec

This from the 1987 SSA MEMBERSHIP HANDBOOK.

Haven't seen an updated book in 20 years. It has lots of useful
information,
like this in it.
JJ Sinclair

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:09:17 +0100, "Pete S"
wrote:

Looks like they made the mistake of assuming that a nautical mile was 6000
feet when it's actually 6080 ft

It's actually 6076.115 feet, but 1 knot=100 fpm is entirely precise
enough for glide computation purposes.

rj

"Pete S" wrote in message ...
Looks like they made the mistake of assuming that a nautical mile was 6000
feet when it's actually 6080 ft

No, it's actually 1852 m in today's world. Your 6080 ft is 1853.184
m, all around the world since an international agreement on the
definition of the yard (and thus feet, inches, etc.) over 40 years
ago.

Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/

You seem like a swell person. I have two tickets to the rodeo. Maybe you
would like to have some Chinese food and a couple of brewskis, then we can
go to rodeo together. You will really enjoy it. Try to rent some Levi's
though. I don't think a starched collar is appropriate.



"Gene Nygaard" wrote in message
m...
"Pete S" wrote in message
...
Looks like they made the mistake of assuming that a nautical mile was
6000
feet when it's actually 6080 ft

No, it's actually 1852 m in today's world. Your 6080 ft is 1853.184
m, all around the world since an international agreement on the
definition of the yard (and thus feet, inches, etc.) over 40 years
ago.

Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/

Nygaard is a troll. He is *not* a glider person. He gets his jollies
by trying to "show off" his supposedly superior knowledge of units of
measure. Ignore him.


(Gene Nygaard) wrote in message om...
"Pete S" wrote in message ...
Looks like they made the mistake of assuming that a nautical mile was 6000
feet when it's actually 6080 ft

No, it's actually 1852 m in today's world. Your 6080 ft is 1853.184
m, all around the world since an international agreement on the
definition of the yard (and thus feet, inches, etc.) over 40 years
ago.

Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/

(JJ Sinclair) wrote in message ...
feet per sec X 0.508 = meters per sec

This from the 1987 SSA MEMBERSHIP HANDBOOK.

Haven't seen an updated book in 20 years. It has lots of useful information,
like this in it.
JJ Sinclair

Right number, for something. Unfortunately, not for the units you
have stated.

This illustrates quite well one of the many pitfalls of having to make
conversions. Get with it, get rid of the Fred Flintstone units and
use the interdisciplinary and International System of Units.

It is actually hectofeet per minute (a screwball unit) that you'd
multiply by 0.508 to get meters per second:

100 ft/min = 0.508 m/s

Note that 100 ft/min is not 1 ft/s, the units you claimed, since we
don't have 100 seconds in a minute.

--
Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/
"It's not the things you don't know
what gets you into trouble.

"It's the things you do know
that just ain't so."
Will Rogers

(JJ Sinclair) wrote in message ...
feet per sec X 0.508 = meters per sec

This from the 1987 SSA MEMBERSHIP HANDBOOK.

Haven't seen an updated book in 20 years. It has lots of useful information,
like this in it.
JJ Sinclair

1 meter =39.37 inches. Methinks someone screwed up, like JJ. Maybe
try .3048, just seems to agree with fact, and good math, not new math,
not french math, either. Nautical mile 6080 feet, as against 5280 for
statute mile.

nautical mile - statute mile =1.1515

statute mile - nautical mile = .8684

"Lennie the Lurker" wrote in
message
om...
| (JJ Sinclair) wrote in message
...
| feet per sec X 0.508 = meters per sec
|
| This from the 1987 SSA MEMBERSHIP HANDBOOK.
|
| Haven't seen an updated book in 20 years. It has lots of
useful information,
| like this in it.
| JJ Sinclair
|
| 1 meter =39.37 inches. Methinks someone screwed up, like
JJ. Maybe
| try .3048, just seems to agree with fact, and good math,
not new math,
| not french math, either. Nautical mile 6080 feet, as
against 5280 for
| statute mile.
|
| nautical mile - statute mile =1.1515
|
| statute mile - nautical mile = .8684

Lennie,
6080 feet is the United Kingdom Nautical Mile
6076.115 feet is the United States Nautical Mile
According to the conversion program I use (Prokon, by Harold
Schwartz, Jefferson City, MO)
Cheers, John G.