Airport Runways

[SectorZ]

Technically 0 is north.  90 is east. 180 is south and 270 is west.
So in reality Runways 36L and 36R are wrong,

Not true.  Those of us who have worked in official navigation roles (of which runways and airline flight would be included) would point out quite clearly that 360 is north.  This is, amongst other things, to reduce confusion when relaying meteorological information.  For example, a wind value of 00000kt (direction 000) is, by definition, calm.

Wait, are you saying that they reserve five digits for the wind speed in knots? 

The first three digits give the direction in degrees, and the last two give the speed in knots. So if the wind was reported as 22013kt, it is blowing from 220° (SW) at a speed of 13 knots.

And that may be too low for a hurricane. Of course there is little use for METAR in the hurricane area, but still..

The first two digits give wind direction, rounded to 10, truncating the zero in that case that every wind direction number would end with (example 230 becomes 23). The final three digits are wind speed, allowing for wind speed up to 999 knots, and covering anything short of Neptune-like wind gusts. Source: I have a meteorology degree.

[Scott5114]

A pilot knowing an exact speed of anything more than 99 knots is like a blackjack dealer knowing a total more than 21. Same result–probably shouldn't be flying today.

[MikeTheActuary]

0 Hundred hours is the same as 24 Hundred hours in military time.

Just to nit-pick: US DOD and NATO communication procedures explicitly state that midnight is an undefined time.  2359 is a valid time in a date time group, as is 0001, but the time 2400/0000 is never used so as to avoid ambiguity about the date.

[kalvado]

A pilot knowing an exact speed of anything more than 99 knots is like a blackjack dealer knowing a total more than 21. Same result–probably shouldn't be flying today.

Hurricane hunters might disagree..

[abefroman329]

A pilot knowing an exact speed of anything more than 99 knots is like a blackjack dealer knowing a total more than 21. Same result–probably shouldn't be flying today.

I think you mean "a blackjack dealer knowing a total more than 26," since they have to hit on hard 16 and could draw a card with a value as high as 10, but I get what you mean.

[Scott5114]

A pilot knowing an exact speed of anything more than 99 knots is like a blackjack dealer knowing a total more than 21. Same result–probably shouldn't be flying today.

I think you mean "a blackjack dealer knowing a total more than 26," since they have to hit on hard 16 and could draw a card with a value as high as 10, but I get what you mean.

I don't. To a blackjack dealer, the set of real numbers stops at 21, and anything beyond that is one amorphous number called "too many". What's the total when someone hits on 16 and draws a 7? Doesn't matter, other than it being "too many", so they don't even bother to add up the precise total. Too much effort, just take the chips and move on. So say the blackjack dealers I've worked with, anyway.

Obviously, this doesn't apply when calculating payouts, but chip math is an entirely different, and much easier, affair.