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Old October 22nd 07, 02:17 AM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Terence Wilson
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Default Pressure & temperature

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:06:30 -0400, "An Aviator"
wrote:

Current temperature is not used to convert
pressure to altimeter settings.


Can you please elucidate? Isn't current temperature implicitly used if
we use a barometer to measure local pressure and then extrapolate the
pressure at sea level (to be used in the Kollsman window)?