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 ...
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 ...
Pressure altitude is a key metric for pilots, representing an aircraft's height above a theoretical "standard datum plane" based on standardized atmospheric conditions (29.92 inHg and 15°C at sea ...
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 ...
An inexpensive universal test set for 4.3-GHz FMCW- and pulse-radio altimeters, the ALT-8000 RF-based portable radio altimeter test set is said to be the first of its kind. Designed for flightline ...