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Obtaining Altimeter Setting with no Comms IMC - Airline Pilot Central Forums
I just had somebody ask me how do we get the Altimeter setting for the airport of intended landing if we lost our communications in IMC during an IFR
Turkish 737 altimeter fault occurred on several flights prior to crash
Flightglobal: Dutch accident investigators have determined that the radio-altimeter fault that is the focus of their probe Author: Kieran Daly Date: 28 April 2009 Read the full article
What is this flight instrument??? - Airline Pilot Central Forums
So I bought this little guy at a flea market to add to my small collection of flight instruments. I liked it because I have no clue what it is....heck
Altimeter setting question - Airline Pilot Central Forums
So I am a little ashamed that I have to ask this but here goes anyways. I for the life of me cannot remember how to calculate this. Let's say we are
Missing altimeter setting, no approach right? - Airline Pilot Central Forums
If the altimeter setting is missing at an airport and there's no substitute altimeter sources in the comments, you can't do the approach there, right?
Altimeter setting overseas - Airline Pilot Central Forums
If you are flying overseas, in a country where the transition level is 060, and you are being vectored around above this transition level (lets say 8,0
EASA cautions 737 operators of radio altimeter errors
Flightglobal: EASA has published a safety information bulletin alerting Boeing 737 operators of an "erroneous low range radio altimeter (LRRA) indication" that has been... Author: John Croft Date: 04 May 2009 Read the full article
RE: Cues should alert 737 pilots to altimeter fault: Boeing
[quote user="Flightglobal"] Boeing has highlighted to 737 operators the symptoms of a malfunctioning radio altimeter, after investigations into the Turkish Airlines approach crash at......
KLM's 737s also have altimeter problems
KLM has had in the past 6 months seventeen reported problems with the altimeters of their 737 fleet. In the document (that remains confidential) it is also stated that there may have been further incidents/problems that were not reported.
Airliner crashes in Amsterdam
From a BBC News Alert - A Turkish airliner with 135 people on board is reported to have crashed at Schipol airport in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. For more details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
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