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Old 7th January 2009 | 22:22
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Whirlygig

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From: Propping up bars in the Lands of D H Lawrence and Bishop Bonner
The flaw with your calculation (although not your logic) is that the rate of pressure change with altitude is not uniform; it is around 27hPa at sea level for a few thousand feet and then the rate increases with altitude. 300 hPa and 30,000ft is part of the ISA standard, along with standard pressure at other altitudes (which I'm afraid I don't have to hand). Any pressures within these standards have to be extrapolated.

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