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The500man 27th January 2011 09:35

Found ths converter for Inches to Millibars: Inches-Millibars Pressure Converter

Crash one 27th January 2011 09:43

Excellent!!!

englishal 27th January 2011 10:17

Don't most altimeters have inches and mb displayed?

29.92 = 1013.3

Jan Olieslagers 27th January 2011 10:36


I don't think TAFs include temperatures do they?
Don't think so, either. And the same applies to QNH, in my experience.

JW411 27th January 2011 11:12

krits:

T21/2721Z T03/2715Z

This does indeed mean that the maximum expected temperature at this airfield is likely to be 21 degrees and is estimated to happen at 2100Z on the 27th.

Likewise the minimum temperature is expected to be 03 degrees at 1500Z on the 27th.

This is useful information for projected take-off performance purposes. (The higher the temperature - the lower the possible take-off weight from a given runway).

In the old days, aircraft like the Tu104 couldn't even get airborne from airfields such as Bahrain in the summer until the temperature went down after dark!

Krits 27th January 2011 11:16

JW

Thank you for that :). I had assumed that it meant the high and low Temps, but wanted a confirmation.

Its amazing seeing how METARS/TAF can change place to place. Not much difference, but still enough to put a few doubts in your head.


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