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Old January 15th 16, 03:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Inspector Sands and his pals
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:30:01 -0600,
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In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 05:41:07 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

Three, and 'three, three, zero', plus the two extra zeros is 33,000
surely?

It is, as just about any normal person would understand. But Colin is
claiming that it's wrong in his eyes as it doesn't mean 33,000
thousand feet.

Two zeros added is hundreds, not thousands!

Are you really saying you were confused by the original article???
Come on!

Two zeros added to the flight level gives the approximate height in
feet, usually rounded to the nearest thousand, which is all the layman
is interested in. The example made it perfectly clear to even the
dimmest reader what was meant.

It's a light-hearted article in a newspaper travel supplement, not a
technical dictionary, product specification or academic dissertation.
I thought it was readable, easily understood, and in no way
misleading.
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