instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and...
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Altimeter setting is the value of the atmospheric pressure used to adjust the scale of a pressure altimeter so that it indicates the height of an aircraft...
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Altimeter Capital is an American investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on technology investments...
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A radar altimeter (RA), also called a radio altimeter (RALT), electronic altimeter, reflection altimeter, or low-range radio altimeter (LRRA), measures...
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instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and...
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determined by a pressure altimeter using the International Standard Atmosphere. It is expressed in hundreds of feet or metres. The altimeter setting used is the...
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Satellite geodesy (redirect from Satellite altimeter)
radio waves used permit the altimeter to automatically correct for varying delays in the ionosphere. Spaceborne radar altimeters have proven to be superb...
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Flight instruments (section Altimeter)
horizon. Visual flight rules (VFR) require an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, and a compass or other suitable magnetic direction indicator. Instrument...
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pressure altimeters (the most basic and common type of altimeter) are essentially the same instrument, but used for different purposes. An altimeter is intended...
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Alitalia Flight 404 (section Altimeter misreading)
Mountain and a known problem with errors in reading the drum pointer altimeter of the aircraft. The final report by the Federal Aircraft Accidents Inquiry...
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Brad Gerstner (section Altimeter Capital)
American investor and hedge fund manager. He is Founder, chairman and CEO of Altimeter Capital. Gerstner appeared on the 2022 Forbes Midas List after his firm's...
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Lidar (redirect from Laser altimeter)
Laser altimeters produced global elevation models of Mars, the Moon (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)) Mercury (Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA)),...
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aircraft's automated reaction, which was triggered by a faulty radio altimeter. This caused the autothrottle to decrease the engine power to idle during...
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altitude obtained when an altimeter is set to an agreed baseline pressure under certain circumstances in which the aircraft’s altimeter would be unable to give...
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Pitot–static system (section Altimeter)
movement through the mechanical linkage. The pressure altimeter, also known as the barometric altimeter, is used to determine changes in air pressure that...
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(typically under poor visibility conditions) must rely on the aircraft's altimeter to decide when to deploy the undercarriage and prepare for landing. Therefore...
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2015, Prophet acquired Altimeter Group, the technology firm founded by Charlene Li. Altimeter operates under the name Altimeter, a Prophet Company. Its...
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is compared with measurements made during flight by an on-board radar altimeter. A TERCOM system considerably increases the accuracy of a missile compared...
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is needed to convert the 3D position to sea-level elevation. Pressure altimeter measuring atmospheric pressure, which decreases as altitude increases...
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third, old-style, altimeter in their cockpits. American Airlines defended the new style altimeter as "a new and far superior altimeter with finer gradations"...
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Dead man's switch (section Altimeter switches)
A dead man's switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss...
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rapid loss of altitude with no corresponding change on the altimeter. While the altimeter indicated an altitude of approximately 9,700 feet (3,000 m)...
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terms of what parameters they measure: AWOS A: barometric pressure and altimeter setting (in inches of Mercury). AWOS I: wind speed and wind gusts (in...
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radar altimeter satellites Jason-1, satellite altimeter used to measure the ocean surface topography, deactivated 2013 Jason-2, satellite altimeter, successor...
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received an ACARS printout for the weather at Hartford. It noted an altimeter setting (reference atmospheric pressure) of 29.42 inches of mercury (996 hPa)...
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reports on radio, television, and newspapers or on the Internet. The altimeter setting in aviation is an atmospheric pressure adjustment. Average sea-level...
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Mars Global Surveyor (redirect from Mars Observer Laser Altimeter)
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) – MOLA was designed to determine Mars' global topography. It operated as an altimeter until a portion of the laser...
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remain part of the standard ICAO radiotelephony phraseology in aviation. Altimeter Pressure Settings CAA CAP 1430 UK Air Traffic Management Vocabulary CAP...
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MESSENGER (redirect from Mercury Laser Altimeter)
Marie Novo-Gradac; Jamie L. Britt; et al. (2007). "The Mercury Laser Altimeter Instrument for the MESSENGER Mission". Space Science Reviews. 131 (1):...
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United Air Lines Flight 389 (section Altimeter study)
most likely the result of the pilots misreading their three-pointer (3p) altimeters by 10,000 feet. At the time of the accident, United Airlines had 39 other...
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