Below sea level

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:05:45 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

The lowest place in the world is the Dead Sea at 1,395' below sea

Wow! It's for stuff like this that I continue to read the newsgroups
despite all the crap that gets posted. I had NO IDEA the Dead Sea was
anywhere near that far down.

I would seriously like to visit (probably not in a floatplane,
however). I drove across Death Valley one time and enjoyed the spooky
feeling that if somecut cut a trench to the Pacific, the VW would have
had a chance to prove the contention that Bugs float ...



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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:34:07 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote in
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:05:45 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

The lowest place in the world is the Dead Sea at 1,395' below sea

Wow! It's for stuff like this that I continue to read the newsgroups
despite all the crap that gets posted. I had NO IDEA the Dead Sea was
anywhere near that far down.

Thank you. I try to assure that my articles contain more
*information* than opinion. While opinion isn't *always* "crap," it
is often extraneous (like this follow up).

Seems to me that the places where you could fly below MSL are very
hot.

I made it a point to fly over Death Valley on the way back from SFO,
just so that I could fly below sea level. I wanted to see the
expression on my altimeter's face.

It looked bewildered.

It was August; temp was well over 100 F. I decided not to land.

vince norris

"Hilton" wrote in message
ink.net...
Hi,

How is standard temperature and pressure defined below sea level? How
does
DA increase/decrease below sea level? I know that the gravitation force
starts decreasing in a *linear* fashion below sea level, but how that
affect
the temp, pressure, and DA is beyond me. Any books, or URLs that could
help
me out here?


http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/SWO/chapter_14Sect2.htm

but it only has the standard pressures down to about -2700 feet, no
temperatures. Increments of .01 inches of mercury.


The following is much more coarse.... every 500 feet:

http://www.sablesys.com/baro-altitude.html

but it shows pressures AND Temperatures down to -5000 feet