• Altimeter setting is the value of the atmospheric pressure used to adjust the scale of a pressure altimeter so that it indicates the height of an aircraft...
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    instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and...
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    by a pressure altimeter using the International Standard Atmosphere. It is expressed in hundreds of feet or metres. The altimeter setting used is the ISA...
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    instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and...
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    of what parameters they measure: AWOS A: barometric pressure and altimeter setting (in inches of Mercury). AWOS I: wind speed and wind gusts (in knots)...
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  • visibility, obstructions to vision, sky condition, temperature, dew point, altimeter setting, density altitude advisory if appropriate; and other pertinent remarks...
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    received an ACARS printout for the weather at Hartford. It noted an altimeter setting (reference atmospheric pressure) of 29.42 inches of mercury (996 hPa)...
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  • television, and newspapers or on the Internet.[citation needed] The altimeter setting in aviation is an atmospheric pressure adjustment. Average sea-level...
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  • and setting the altimeter so as to read zero on the ground of that airport. Confusion between AGL and AMSL, or improper calibration of the altimeter, may...
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  • ( 29.92 − Altimeter setting ) . {\displaystyle {\text{Pressure altitude (PA)}}={\text{Elevation}}+1000\times (29.92-{\text{Altimeter setting}}).} For example...
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    and descend too steeply. The actual altimeter settings on both the captain's and the first officer's altimeters could not be determined because of fire...
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  • practice. This is the altimeter setting that is intended to produce correct altitude indication (i.e., no error) on an altimeter at the actual sea level...
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    temperature/dew point is below zero Celsius. Q1020 indicates the current altimeter setting (in QNH) is 1,020 hPa (30.12 inHg). NOSIG is an example of a TREND...
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    other jurisdictions). So when the altimeter reads the country-specific flight level on the standard pressure setting the aircraft is said to be at "Flight...
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    pressure altimeters (the most basic and common type of altimeter) are essentially the same instrument, but used for different purposes. An altimeter is intended...
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    region while the SDA is an "altimeter setting" region. This means that pilots operating in the SDA will calibrate their altimeters to atmospheric pressure...
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    during a nighttime approach in poor visibility because of an incorrect altimeter setting and the absence of the flight instructor in the cockpit during the...
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    6 to circle-to-land one Runway 1. After asking ATC to repeat the altimeter setting, Captain Ramsey expressed shock and confusion about the instructions...
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    reason cited for the accident in the official report was a wrong setting of the altimeter. At 98 fatalities this is the deadliest aircraft incident in Slovenia...
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    point and was descending. The operator provided the pilots with the altimeter setting for Candler Field and with the current weather. Flight 21 then contacted...
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    attempting to land at Bradley International Airport due to an incorrect altimeter setting, on November 12, 1995. Pilgrim Airlines Flight 203 went down in the...
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    trainee controller had also transmitted an incorrect QNH (barometric altimeter setting) that was 9 hPa too high. The approach instructions were not fully...
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    tools. Altimeter setting is a term and quantity used in aviation. The regional or local air pressure at mean sea level is called the altimeter setting, and...
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  • The altitude transmitted is pressure altitude, and corrected for altimeter setting at the ATC facility. If no encoder is attached, the transponder may...
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  • and air traffic controllers that refers to atmospheric pressure and altimeter settings Quick Fix Engineering, also known as "hotfix". Quoted for emphasis...
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    knot (1.9 km/h), Ceiling and Visibility OK, QNH 1002 HPa, current altimeter setting 29.59 in.Hg, falling to 998 HPa, 29.47 in.Hg, NO SIGnificant change...
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    feet (3,000 m). Temperature 25 °C (77 °F), dewpoint 15 °C (59 °F). Altimeter setting 1009.3 hPa / 29.80 inHg". Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing...
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    class A airspace are pressure altitudes referenced to a standardized altimeter setting of 29.92" InHg and thus the true altitudes depend on local atmospheric...
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    of HOWARD intersection. The controller then gave them the current altimeter setting at JNU and requested they report passing 11,000 feet in the descent...
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    000 feet [above ground level]; temperature—27 °C; dew point—25 °C; altimeter setting 29.85 inches Hg; remarks—showers vicinity northwest-northeast.: 20 ...
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