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The aviation community does not change things unless they absolutely have to because unnecessary change kills people. Aircraft instruments have always been marked in feet. If they changed to metric just because metric is More Modern, eventually an ATC somewhere would call out a metric altitude, a plane would think it was in feet and fly there, and wind up getting into a mid-air accident with a General Aviation plane. Feet work fine in aviation, so they'll keep using feet.

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