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Old November 13th 05, 05:04 AM
Peter Duniho
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Default why high to low, look out below?

"jim rosinski" wrote in message
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Only that the "high to low, look out below" phrase in piloting texts
generally refers to pressure effects, not temperature effects. That's the
only sense in which I disagree with the cited article.

Here's what Jeppeson's Instrument and Commercial textbook (2003 edition)
has to say on the subject (page 2-20 on Altimeter Setting):


Nothing about that quoted text suggests that the mnemonic is ONLY used for
that kind of error. Got anything else?