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Cautionary Conversation: Flying on Empty

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Unit Conversion Errors in Flight Simulators

There's a note in your book that they recreated this scenario in a simulator for other pilots, and it did not always go well. I imagine a few people lost, lost a few hairs, things were lost. One of the other unit conversion errors in your book is a celsius fahrenheit thing on a b b c. The as a big investigation afterwards to work ouwhat went wrong and how and why. Andt yu're wright, there must have been a shouting match. There must have been team three point six degrees and team 36 degrees.

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