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Old 2nd Jan 2017, 19:08
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eckhard
 
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BillieBob:

To be strictly accurate, an altimeter with its sub scale set to 1013.2 would, according to the Annex 2 definition, only indicate pressure altitude in a standard atmosphere. How many nits do we wish to pick?
I would have thought that the indication would be pressure altitude whether or not standard conditions pertained.

If true altitude or density altitude were required, then a correction for non-standard conditions would have to be made.

But now I too have run out of nits to pick!
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