Comment on "Your altimeter displays one altitude while your GPS displays another. Under VFR, which do you use/when?"
...scussion, stories of near mid airs / crashes due to mistaken altimeter settings, "minor" misreads i...es- before that I didn't know you had to read back Altimeter settings. For example, suppose y...Comment on "Your altimeter displays one altitude while your GPS displays another. Under VFR, which do you use/when?"
...big operational problem for me these days, as my trike is so slow that I rarely go anywhere far enough away that I have to worry about altimeter settings (my local field elevation is...Comment on "Site Tips: List of tips previously ran on front page"
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...The computer is usually about 0.1 gallons fast (ie it says I have about 0.1 gallons less than I really have)-- it took a LOT of playing with the settings to get it accurate (but it wa...