XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:06:42 -0400, Tony Cooper   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 03:44:55 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   > wrote:   
   >>All the actual pilots that I've met have said "ALti-meter".   
   >>   
   >>Maybe it's one of those "made for TV" things, where Brit TV people use   
   >>the American pronunciation of words like "har-ASS", and refer to   
   >>corpses as "Caucasian".   
   >   
   >When I was taking flying lessons for my private pilot's license, the   
   >pronunciation used by my instructors was "all-timmitter".  The other   
   >members of the flying club* I belonged to all said it the same.   
      
   And when I was taking flying lessons in flying gliders, both glider   
   pilots and tug aircraft pilots said "Alti-meter", as did any other   
   pilots who happened to be around.   
      
   >*The club owned a Cessna 172, which anyone in the club could use at an   
   >hourly rate.  It was a small enough club that booking flight time was   
   >not difficult.   
      
   The Gliding Club owned a Slingby T42 and a Ronschwalbe K2, and one of   
   the members had a Piper SuperCub with which he used to tow them to get   
   them airborne. The parachute club used a Piper Tripacer.   
      
      
      
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