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AirNav Radar => AirNav Radar Screenshots => Topic started by: belgianguy on January 03, 2010, 06:17:18 PM

Title: Flying high
Post by: belgianguy on January 03, 2010, 06:17:18 PM
Hi,

Just noticed an airbus flying very very high. (EZY8806 - FL774)

I also noticed a few minutes before an aircraft that was on approach to EBBR.
It was decending because vertical speed was negative, but the altitude show on the label was increasing. I think maybe something was wrong due to the cold weather? Maybe frozen pitot or something like that.
Title: Re: Flying high
Post by: viking9 on January 03, 2010, 09:10:36 PM
Vertical speed is not measured by pitot pressure but by the static port which would be unlikely to freeze over.