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- Definição1
- Station pressure (the barometric pressure at the location the reading is taken) which has been corrected for the height of the station above sea level.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Definição2
- The station pressure corrected for the height of the station above sea level. When this pressure (QNH) is set in the altimeter window (also known as a Kollsman window), the altimeter indicates the height above mean sea level. The setting may be in inches, millibars, or hectopascals.
- Fonte2
- EMBRAER. Technical dictionary english-portuguese. [São José dos Campos], 2001.
- Definição3
- Value of the atmospheric pressure used to adjust the subscale of a pressure altimeter so that it indicates the height of an aircraft above a known reference surface.
- Fonte3
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge. [s.l.], 2008. Disponível em: http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/av iation/pilot_handbook/media/PHAK%20-%20Cover-Preface.pdf. Acesso em: 26 jun. 2014.
- Fonte4
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Aircraft operations: flight procedures. 5.ed. Montreal, 2006. Volume 1. (Doc. 8168)
- Contexto
- Procedures that require the use of forecast altimeter setting are so annotated on the approach charts.
- Subárea
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Flight Instruments
- Related Term
- altimetry
- Spanish
- reglaje de altímetro