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 ...

Investigators have determined that the crew of an Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10 did not set the correct destination pressure reference for the altimeter before the twinjet dipped far below the ...

Pressure altitude is the height an aircraft would read if its altimeter were set to a standard pressure of 29.92 inHg, serving as a theoretical baseline for aircraft performance calculations. It is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most airplanes fly above Mean Sea Level altitudes (MSL), the altimeter would read 5,280 feet in Denver. They are corrected for barometric pressure. When flying above 18,000 feet in the U.S., airplanes ...