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Originally Posted by redpoint5
5,600 feet is closer to a mile, and 1000M is exactly 1KM, so they aren't even close to similar distances. I'd say turn in a mile if that's how far the turn was, and I'd say turn in half a mile if that's how far the turn was.
Imperial is a PITA to work with. I'd happily abandon it.
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Right 1,000 meters is 3,280 feet 10 1/16th inches, to be more precise.
There are 5,280 feet in a mile, and that is 1,609.344 meters.
5,604 feet is 1 mile and 324 feet.
I work in feet and inches all the time, so I am used to it - but with a little practice, I could easily adapt to metric.
My very first drafting job was to covert a bunch of machine drawings from metric to imperial - and I remember the conversion factor to this day, some 40 years later: 0.03937