Norwegian investigators have disclosed that they are probing a low approach involving a Wideroe De Havilland Dash 8-100 at the northern Svolvaer airport last month. The aircraft dipped 700ft below the ...

But with a QNH setting for the altimeter the aircraft would have been barely 120m above the airfield elevation. While still 15km from Tynda’s runway, the An-24 collided with trees at an altitude of ...

LYON—French air accident investigation bureau BEA has released its final report on a ground proximity event involving an AirHub Airlines-operated Airbus A320 at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in May ...

Aircraft have a lot of necessary tools required to fly, including an altimeter that keeps track of how high they are. However, pilots must use several different types of altitude readings for ...

For any instrument approach in the U.S., a certified and authorized altimeter setting is legally mandatory; without one, the approach is unusable, even if nearby airport settings are also unavailable.

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Khalid, I'm not sure I entirely follow the question as written, but an aircraft sitting on the ground at an airport with field elevation 2000 feet above mean sea level will have a ...