instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and...

instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and...

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...

Altimeter Capital is an American investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on technology investments...

A radar altimeter (RA), also called a radio altimeter (RALT), electronic altimeter, reflection altimeter, or low-range radio altimeter (LRRA), measures...

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...

radio waves used permit the altimeter to automatically correct for varying delays in the ionosphere. Spaceborne radar altimeters have proven to be superb...

horizon. Visual flight rules (VFR) require an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, and a compass or other suitable magnetic direction indicator. Instrument...

pressure altimeters (the most basic and common type of altimeter) are essentially the same instrument, but used for different purposes. An altimeter is intended...

Laser altimeters produced global elevation models of Mars, the Moon (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)) Mercury (Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA)),...

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...

(typically under poor visibility conditions) must rely on the aircraft's altimeter to decide when to deploy the undercarriage and prepare for landing. Therefore...

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...

third, old-style, altimeter in their cockpits. American Airlines defended the new style altimeter as "a new and far superior altimeter with finer gradations"...

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...

aircraft's automated reaction, which was triggered by a faulty radio altimeter. This caused the autothrottle to decrease the engine power to idle during...

movement through the mechanical linkage. The pressure altimeter, also known as the barometric altimeter, is used to determine changes in air pressure that...

Marie Novo-Gradac; Jamie L. Britt; et al. (2007). "The Mercury Laser Altimeter Instrument for the MESSENGER Mission". Space Science Reviews. 131 (1):...

2015, Prophet acquired Altimeter Group, the technology firm founded by Charlene Li. Altimeter operates under the name Altimeter, a Prophet Company. Its...

remain part of the standard ICAO radiotelephony phraseology in aviation. Altimeter Pressure Settings CAA CAP 1430 UK Air Traffic Management Vocabulary CAP...

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...

radar altimeter satellites Jason-1, satellite altimeter used to measure the ocean surface topography, deactivated 2013 Jason-2, satellite altimeter, successor...

1 inHg60 °F = 0.489 771 psi, or 2.041 771 inHg60 °F = 1 psi. Aircraft altimeters measure the relative pressure difference between the lower ambient pressure...

the Amsterdam Peil elevation, which dates back to the 1690s. Satellite altimeters have been making precise measurements of sea level since the launch of...

TOPEX/Poseidon was a joint satellite altimeter mission between NASA, the U.S. space agency; and CNES, the French space agency, to map ocean surface topography...

could resist temperatures up to 450 °C (723 K). The capsule contained an altimeter, thermal control, a parachute and equipment for making atmospheric measurements...

reports on radio, television, and newspapers or on the Internet. The altimeter setting in aviation is an atmospheric pressure adjustment. Average sea-level...

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...

is needed to convert the 3D position to sea-level elevation. Pressure altimeter measuring atmospheric pressure, which decreases as altitude increases...

near-surface water ice deposits. Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter investigation provides a precise global lunar topographic...