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Old 30th Mar 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?

Cheers,

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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