"Stefan" wrote in message
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Uh... Icebound..., the altimeter *always* indicates pressure altitude.
To get useful information, you must set the altimeter appropriately, of
course. Appropriately may or may not mean 1013.

You two are just arguing about terminology. I've always thought the norm is
to refer to an altitude measured on an altimeter (rather than another
instrument like a GPS) as "barometric altitude", with "pressure altitude"
reserved for the indicated altitude with 1013/29.92 set.

Julian Scarfe
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