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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
- 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.
- 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
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- 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
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. International meteorological vocabulary. 2nd ed. Geneva, 1992. (WMO, n.182). Disponível em: < https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=220# .XeauGOhKiUk >. Acesso em: 11 dez. 2019.
- 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.
- Subárea1
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Related Term
- Kollsman number
- Kollsman station barometer
- Kollsman window
- Variante
- ajustagem do altímetro [POR]
- Português
- ajuste de altímetro