I learned how to calculate True Altitude when I was a
student pilot, about 40 years ago.


"Bee" wrote in message
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| Jim Macklin wrote:
| |
| | In Europe its the easiest way to fail an IR
checkride by
| failing to
| | compensate for the ISA deviation in the winter and
being
| deemed to have
| | busted the limits
| |
| | Our FAA isn't that smart.
|
| Or that anal.
|
| Well, then our Air Force is anal. They worked with the
FAA for a long
| time on this issue, then gave up and implemented cold temp
procedures
| just for the Air Force. They almost lost a cargo bird at
Tule,
| Greenland in the late 1980s that got their attention.
|
| The problem isn't usually with minimums. It is out on the
initial
| segments and sometimes the feeder routes as well. The
higher above the
| altimeter setting source, the larger the errors.