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Old 24th July 2002 | 07:35
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fixedwingsforever
 
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Jet Standard Atmosphere

When you use JSA for calculations the temperature is assumed to be 15 C with at lapse rate of 2 C pr 1000ft (as in ISA) - the difference is that there is no upper limit. So my question is - why do we use JSA and not ISA for calculations regarding the Machmeter?
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