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Old 19th Oct 2008, 10:02
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If you wind your altimeter from 990 up to 1013 that will tell you your Pressure Altitude if you were sat in the aircraft. 940 ft give or take if the airfields at 250 ft.

The easy way to think about it is that low pressures, those under 1013, give lower performance i.e. higher pressure altitudes.
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