Although the crew informed the air traffic controller that they had passed the NDB at 1,100m, the altimeter’s reference to sea level rather than airfield elevation meant the An-24 was actually flying ...
Researchers have utilised more than a decade’s worth of data from radar altimeters on ESA’s ERS satellites to produce the most detailed picture yet of thickness changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. A ...
Norwegian investigators have determined that weak altimeter procedures resulted in a Wideroe De Havilland Dash 8-300 crew’s forgetting to set and check the correct QNH pressure during an approach to ...