Nuvi 650 displays altitude in meters not feet - can I fix it?

My Nuvi shows the altitude in meters although the speed is miles/hour.
Any way to get the altitude in feet?
Thanks
Jim
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Jim Sanchez - Tucson AZ

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You sure can .............


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I do seems to change the altitude display.
Jim
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Jim Sanchez - Tucson AZ

Here's what Jim Sanchez wrote on 8/17/09:

Weird. I'd suggest contacting Garmin tech support, although a lot of
browsing in the menus might turn up a setting for latitude units...

OTOH, a meter is practically 1.1 yards. If you're OK with arithmetic in
your head, you could:

Multiply meters by 3 and add 10% to the result, or
Multiply meters by 10 and divide the result by 3.

E.g.
1200 meters x 10 = 12000, and dividing by 3 gives 4000'

My converting calculator gives 3937'.

OK, I admit I picked an easy number :-)

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Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com

Maybe, just maybe, the USofA is (finally) metricating - by stealth ;-)