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  2. Altimeter - Wikipedia

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    The greater the altitude, the lower the pressure. When a barometer is supplied with a nonlinear calibration so as to indicate altitude, the instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and skydivers use wrist-mounted versions for similar ...

  3. Pitot–static system - Wikipedia

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    Pressure altimeters must be calibrated prior to flight to register the pressure as an altitude above sea level. The instrument case of the altimeter is airtight and has a vent to the static port. Inside the instrument, there is a sealed aneroid barometer. As pressure in the case decreases, the internal barometer expands, which is mechanically ...

  4. Pressure measurement - Wikipedia

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    The most common ion gauge is the hot-cathode Bayard–Alpert gauge, with a small ion collector inside the grid. A glass envelope with an opening to the vacuum can surround the electrodes, but usually the nude gauge is inserted in the vacuum chamber directly, the pins being fed through a ceramic plate in the wall of the chamber.

  5. NTSB Reveals Altitude Discrepancies, Lost Communication With ...

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    The Black Hawk helicopter may have been flying with “bad data” and didn’t hear all air traffic control instructions before colliding with a passenger plane, officials said.

  6. Pressure altimeter - Wikipedia

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    The greater the altitude, the lower the pressure. When a barometer is supplied with a nonlinear calibration so as to indicate altitude, the instrument is a type of altimeter called a pressure altimeter or barometric altimeter. A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and skydivers use wrist-mounted versions for similar ...

  7. Cabin pressurization - Wikipedia

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    Pilots can use a "cabin altimeter" (also known as a cabin differential pressure gauge) to measure the difference between inside and outside pressure. [ 8 ] Keeping the cabin altitude below 8,000 ft (2,438 m) generally prevents significant hypoxia , altitude sickness , decompression sickness , and barotrauma . [ 9 ]

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    Signs your cold is getting better. A cold is an infection caused by over 200 respiratory viruses, but the most common is a virus known as rhinovirus. ... This 'inside-out' grilled cheese is a ...

  9. Flight instruments - Wikipedia

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    The cockpit of a Slingsby T-67 Firefly two-seat light airplane.The flight instruments are visible on the left of the instrument panel. Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, heading and much more other crucial information in flight.