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GARY BOGGS wrote:

As an instructor,one of my favorite tricks is to set the altimeter
about 800ft low before the student gets in. The student inviably
turns the knob 200ft to minus 600ft, 1000ft lower than our field.
Then I keep asking how things look. Gets'em every time! The
lesson: Believe your eyes over the instruments!

That's a good lesson, since the weather can do this to you too. The one
time I did it, I managed to do it to *both* altimeters in a two-seater,
and only discovered the error after getting off tow. Then I asked my
passenger what his read and found out that I did it to both seats. No
big deal as long as you're alert, of course, but I learned something
that day.

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Mike Ash
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