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User currently offlineNovice From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2012, 89 posts, RR: 0
Posted (6 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1461 times:

Can someone explain pressure error? in regard to one of the altimeter instrument errors

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User currently offlineflyingturtle From Switzerland, joined Oct 2011, 1268 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (6 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1461 times:

Altimeters should be pretty reliable... except some wasps decide to occupy the static port.

Does your question relate to pressure altitude? Temperature differences can cause wrong altimeter indications. Or do you mean the difference between QNH (standardized altimeter setting to maintain vertical separation between aircraft) and QFE (the correct altimeter setting in regard to the ground)?


David


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User currently offlineJetlagged From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 2452 posts, RR: 17
Reply 2, posted (6 months 20 hours ago) and read 1461 times:

Pressure error is the difference between sensed air pressure (static or pitot) and freestream pressure (static or total) . This occurs because the local airflow affects the pressure around the port. In relation to an altimeter it means that the sensed static pressure will give an incorrect altitude reading unless it is corrected. Air Data Computers have correction tables based on flight test data which apply a correction to the sensed pressure to give a corrected pressure, from which the indicated altitude is derived.

On some aircraft if you select alternate static source in flight you get an uncorrected pressure measurement (or perhaps a less sophisticated correction) which means the indicated altitude jumps to a new value.


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