MIKE MOSS SAYS: Khalid, I'm not sure I entirely follow the question as written, but an aircraft sitting on the ground at an airport with field elevation 2000 feet above mean sea level will have a ...
Norwegian investigators have disclosed that they are probing a low approach involving a Wideroe De Havilland Dash 8-100 at the northern Svolvaer airport last month. The aircraft dipped 700ft below the ...
Altimeters measure atmospheric pressure, not true altitude, and are prone to inherent errors because real-world conditions rarely match the "standard atmosphere" they are calibrated against.
Investigators have determined that the crew of an Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10 did not set the correct destination pressure reference for the altimeter before the twinjet dipped far below the ...
Mechanical altimeters, despite their ingenious design, are susceptible to various instrument errors including mechanical wear, scale inaccuracies, installation/position effects, and hysteresis, which ...