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Quiz: Understanding the airplane Pitot-Static System

Flight Training Central

Airspeed and altimeter. Airspeed, altimeter, and vertical speed. If a flight is made from an area of low pressure into an area of high pressure without the altimeter setting being adjusted, the altimeter will indicate lower than the actual altitude above sea level. Turbulent or rough-air speed. Airspeed only.

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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. Passing through 2,800, the altimeter almost stopped, but finally, at 2,900 we punched through the inversion layer! It got turbulent, and then very turbulent.

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