Question: I'm a student pilot with about five hours experience and yesterday the CFI distracted me and, when I looked away, he reset the altimeter so it was a couple of hundred feet off. Of course, I ...
The article details the historical understanding of atmospheric pressure and introduces various aviation-specific altimeter settings: QFE (station pressure), QNH (altimeter setting), QFF (sea level ...
Investigation into the Hop Bombardier CRJ1000 low-approach incident at Nantes in October 2021 has exposed vulnerabilities in crucial pressure-setting procedures, and potential difficulties in ...
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 ...
LYON—French air accident investigation bureau BEA has released its final report on a ground proximity event involving an AirHub Airlines-operated Airbus A320 at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in May ...
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 ...
Accurate altimeter settings are critically important for IFR pilots, especially in mountainous regions, though their derivation from measured station pressure involves theoretical calculations that ...