In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:35:42 -0600,
wrote:

In article

-septemb
er.org, (Recliner) wrote:

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...gency-codes-yo
ure-not-supposed-to-know-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.]

Count the numbers of zeros.

So isn't FL330 33,000 feet as it says?

And the number of zeros in a thousand?

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Colin Rosenstiel