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Altitude Drift (Read 213 times)
Jan 18th, 2012 at 12:24pm

Jokerc152   Offline
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Kind of a stupid question but is there a certain flight level where you stop experiencing altitude drift when flying in area of varying pressures?
 
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Reply #1 - Jan 21st, 2012 at 11:58am

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Above 18,000 feet MSL, all aircraft are to use 29.92 as an altimeter setting, instead of the local pressure.
 
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