For reference, the max allowed GA airspeed by the FAA under 10,000 ft (3km) altitude is 250 knots. Doing so at 175 feet is wild.
234 knots is also equal to 269 miles per hour.
Yeah knots are just nautical miles per hour
Which is irrelevant, given this is about aviation where feet and knots are standardized in all but a few former Soviet block countries.
As somebody who doesn't regularly interact with aviation I don't have an intuitive understanding of knots and feet so to me it is helpful to have these translated to units that I "understand".
Still, helpful for the large majority of people who are not pilots.
I’m flying an ultralight in Europe and my IAS is in km/h. And to be frank, probably all UL and PPL aircraft I’ve seen nearby use km/h, not knots. Not sure why it is so, but it’s definitely easier for my brain. :)
Entire countries-worth of aviators are irrelevant?
And we’re talking about it Hackernews not on Avsim or aviation herald. People here would better understand in a language they know.