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Old 30th March 2011 | 13:13
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Originally Posted by VOD80
Hi dp,

That Airspace AVOID looks good. Some of the screen shots show altitude. I guess that's GPS altitude. How does that compare with barometric altitude?

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Tony
Variably, mostly quite close, but you still need to fly to barometric altitude. It is useful (if you have a terrain map in the GPS) for terrain avoidance however.

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