Why yards for distances ?

[dimsum]

Ok smarty pants, why do people use time to measure distance when travelling? >

"how far is it from Halifax to Sydney?" "Oh, about 5 hours."

When I was in Nav School with other Norwegians, Singaporeans, Kiwis and Portuguese students, they all hated the fact that Canadians did that    We started "converting" some of them to do the same by the end of their course.

 

[Pusser]

Ok smarty pants, why do people use time to measure distance when travelling? >

"how far is it from Halifax to Sydney?" "Oh, about 5 hours."

Because do you really care about the physical distance or the time it's going to take you to get there?

 

[Timmy!]

"how far is it from Halifax to Sydney?" "Oh, about 5 hours."

You must of stop at the Lick-a-Chick then... slow one.

 

[cupper]

You must of stop at the Lick-a-Chick then... slow one.

Last time I drove from Halifax to Sydney, a lot of the twinning along the TC was still only on paper.

 

[MMSS]

Last time I drove from Halifax to Sydney, a lot of the twinning along the TC was still only on paper.

We make the trip a few times a year (wife's parents are in Sydney) - twinning has gotten much further. Last time we went, it was twinned past Antigonish.

 

[Sub_Guy]

I once used a radar that displayed ranges in NM, then after down scaling to a certain range, the NM were changed to Yards! 

But we were still expected to report in NM anyway!  THE HORROR!

I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss my Radar, but I get to eat more box lunches in my new seat!

 

[aesop081]

I once used a radar that displayed ranges in NM, then after down scaling to a certain range, the NM were changed to Yards! 

But we were still expected to report in NM anyway!  THE HORROR!

I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss my Radar, but I get to eat more box lunches in my new seat!

You work in Kiloyards now anyways.........