"Recliner" wrote in message
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The Real Doctor wrote:
On 15/01/16 09:05, Recliner wrote:
I think we all know what an Inspector Sands call means, though I never
knew
where his name came from. This article told me, and some of the other
coded
PA messages on stations, ships and planes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...now-about.html

In true Telegraph style, some of that is trivial:

"Hot bit - The heated part of an in-flight meal."

and some is just plain wrong:

"Flight level - "A fancy way of telling you how many thousands of feet
you are above sea level. Just add a couple of zeroes. Flight level
three-three zero is 33,000 feet.""

Is that wrong? [Yes, I know it's the barometric altitude, but that's not
something that's normally mentioned.]

It's inconsistent between the general statement (which refers to thousands
of feet) and the specific example (which implies hundreds of feet). The
latter is correct: you multiply a flight level by one *hundred* to give the
height in feet.