Norwegian investigators have disclosed that they are probing a low approach involving a Wideroe De Havilland Dash 8-100 at the northern Svolvaer airport last month. The aircraft dipped 700ft below the ...

But with a QNH setting for the altimeter the aircraft would have been barely 120m above the airfield elevation. While still 15km from Tynda’s runway, the An-24 collided with trees at an altitude of ...

LYON—French air accident investigation bureau BEA has released its final report on a ground proximity event involving an AirHub Airlines-operated Airbus A320 at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in May ...

Pressure altitude represents an aircraft's height above a theoretical standard datum plane, derived from standardized atmospheric conditions (29.92 inHg at sea level). It is a critical metric for ...

For any instrument approach in the U.S., a certified and authorized altimeter setting is legally mandatory; without one, the approach is unusable, even if nearby airport settings are also unavailable.

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Khalid, I'm not sure I entirely follow the question as written, but an aircraft sitting on the ground at an airport with field elevation 2000 feet above mean sea level will have a ...