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Old 16th Sep 2011, 13:15
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Edit. (The lag is the reason why they developed Instantaneous / Inertial VSIs.)
Nope - they developed IVSIs because the standard VSI uses a restricted tube to deliberately introduce a calibrated lag into the instrument, so that the lagged pressure may be compared to the current pressure - and the difference is of course related to the change of pressure.
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