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24th Apr 2016 09:28

Using weather altitude to estimate altitude

I seem to distantly recall someone once mentioning of a way to approximate altitude by using the weather radar in the event of having unreliable instruments.
If anyone has a technique of doing this it would be much appreciated.

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