Africa Pilot
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- Joined
- May 18, 2002
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Hi everybody,
I wonder if you all can help with a problem that has stumped a student and me:
How can it be true that an increase in temperature has the effect of decreasing indicated altitude, while at the same time high temperature increases density altitude?
The crux of the question is this: Does an increase in temperature increase or decrease ambient pressure? The altimeter seems to think that there is an INCREASE in pressure, whereas the fact that density altitude increases w/temp. points to a pressure DECREASE.
I must be missing something obvious.
THANKS!
I wonder if you all can help with a problem that has stumped a student and me:
How can it be true that an increase in temperature has the effect of decreasing indicated altitude, while at the same time high temperature increases density altitude?
The crux of the question is this: Does an increase in temperature increase or decrease ambient pressure? The altimeter seems to think that there is an INCREASE in pressure, whereas the fact that density altitude increases w/temp. points to a pressure DECREASE.
I must be missing something obvious.
THANKS!