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Old 19th Aug 2018, 19:29
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Following on from my last post, an aviation “foot” in terms of pressure altimetry only bears a passing resemblance to the 6076.12 feet in a nautical mile or the foot that a metrologist might derive from a physical standard.

The only constant is that properly calibrated altimeters with the appropriate sub-scale setting will read the same when aircraft are close to each other at the same geometric altitude.
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