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Old 4th Mar 2014, 20:24
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underfire
 
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Fairly certain that the DME information is provided by the government source, Jepp does not calc.

The altitude rings typically assume a nominal slope angle of 3 degrees. How the accuracy of the ground station (185m) is calc'd is is a bit of an art.
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