How to Read an Altimeter - For Student Pilots
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- In this video, I go over how to read an altimeter!
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🛫 Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:21 Altimeter Setting
01:04 3 Needles on the Altimeter
04:19 Another Example
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I'm not a pilot in real life, but I like to think of it as the hour, minute, and second hands on a clock. The hour hand shows 1,000 feet, the minute shows 100, and the second 10,000 feet.
I like it!
Yeah just way confusing to teach that tho cuz people think in 60’s for time. This will royally confuse people’s mempry
Finally grasped the concept. All these videos explaining how the damn thing works but not how to read one. Helped me out a lot boss
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watchin
Thank you... I'm just getting into aviation, and have a simulator that I'm learning with, but couldn't understand how to read the meter. This was super simple, and was said in a way that made it click, and now I realise where I was misunderstanding it
Oh well welcome to aviation! I am glad you like our content! Let me know if you ever have questions!
Hey I'm in the same boat haha, I was losing my mind trying to read this, but now I know. Thanks for the video
Thank you this was very helpful!🙂
Really well articulated, thank you!!
Cleared that up . Thanks 👍
Super helpful, thank you
Well explained, thank you :)
Thanks Part Time Pilot!
I know that there are many videos on youtube of how to read the altimeter but with your explanation I finally understood it in a simple way. Thanks man 😎
Of course. Thank you for the comment and for watching!
He’s wrong don’t listen to it read my comments please
@@blueeye490 no I’m not wrong. You are. Sorry!
@@PartTimePilot Of course you aren't ❤. Your explanation was very helpful and clear. The guy saying that you're wrong clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@CodPix appreciate the support. There are different types of altimeters out there but not sure what he was sayin lol
This really helped me! Thank you kindly dear Sir!
Anytime. Thanks for watching!
Actually, thank you very much sir for taught us how to read the altimeter. I understood whether how to read altimeter and I got this lesson very well❤😊🎉
Thanks for watching!
Thank you, you made it super easy to understand.
Anytime!
thank you for explaining this so well
Anytime!
You rock, thank you for this!
Thanks! You rock! And thanks for watching
Awesome!
The best way to do it is scan all 3 in order. And simply take the number that is only in the positive (forget the number above at all) and note that as the whole number. Eg if it’s above 1 then just note 10,000 for the 10k needle of course. For the 1k needle, do the same thing. If it’s above the 7 then note 7k. For the 100 needle, if it’s above the 3 then note 300. You’ll get 17,300.
Thanks 👍
Freakin finally got this so thank you haha!
nice explanation, ty!
Thanks for watching!
Excellent explanation, much appreciated!
Thanks! Thanks for watching
He’s wrong please don’t listen to it read my comments
@@blueeye490 hi! Can you explain how I am wrong?
Thanks man!
Anytime thanks for watching!
Thanks for explaining to this, you should also mention how to read if you are below sea level
Hey no problem. Thank you for the tip I will be sure to include it in future
Thanks
Thank you very much sir
Of course thanks for watching
Thank you master 🙏 I'm working on getting my A&P license but I just want to know every single component. I wish I could be a pilot one day 🌌
Thanks for watching!
Nice
What does 20 feet look like? The 10k and 1k arrows at 0 and the 100 feet arrow at negative? Idk
10k at 0, 1k at 0, 100' just barely above 0
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I.l give you 10 out of 10 for this video Some people may still be learning how read the clock on the wall mate to tho who are still learning how to read the clock it 16.49; 7s
how do you read it if you're below sea level?
It would be below zero. You have to have the knowledge that you are near or below sea level though.
For example if you are in Death Valley and at -200 ft below sea level it would look like 9800’ but obviously this is wrong.
Inside an altimeter is something called an aneroid wafer. Think of it as a balloon that is filled with sea level pressure air. When you climb the balloon expands because outside the balloon the pressure is decreasing. This expansion causes the dials to spin to the right and increase the altitude values. If you are to descend the pressure increases outside the balloon and the balloon contracts causing the dials to spin to left and show less altitude. This contraction would not stop once you go below sea level because the pressure would keep rising accordingly so the dials would continue to spin left past 0.
isn't the 10,000' hand the shortest, skinny one?
Like another person commented, exactly like a hour, minute, and second hands. The longer the needle, the smaller the units of measurement. The shorter the needle, the bigger units of measurement.
I can’t speak for every altimeter out there but I can say what I have in the video is the most common. Some are different so you have to know what yours is. Once you start using it and even during preflight check if you have any elevation above sea level it should be pretty obvious which is which.
Here are some sources that match how I have it set:
www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/systems/how-does-your-aircraft-altimeter-work/
tghaviation.com/aircraft-instrument-services/how-to-read-a-3-pointer-altimeter/
learntoflyblog.com/2015/06/22/flight-instruments-the-altimeter-and-altitudes/
aviatorshq.com/basic-flight-instruments-explained-the-six-pack/
0:44 changes in sea level pressure?
The altimeter is basically sensing the difference in pressure of the air that comes into the instrument (the static air at your current altitude) and what you have set in our altimeter window. Inside the altimeter is something called an android wafer and it’s like a balloon filled with standard sea level pressure. When you climb in altitude and the static air pressure goes down. The pressure in the balloon is higher than the pressure outside and so the balloon expands. When it expands it turns the dial on the face of the altimeter to indicate a rise in altitude. This is how altimeters work. But when the sea level pressure is NOT standard, we have to change our altimeter setting to re-calibrate the altimeter so that it is not comparing the difference of static air to standard 29.92 but instead static air and the actual sea level pressure which we put into the window
What happens if you're somehow above 99,900 feet?
Then you need a laser altimeter like the space shuttle that pings laser beams and tracks how long it takes for light to bounce off the earth and return back to you. Lol. These altimeters in the video won’t work anymore because the gradual pressure we see in the lower atmosphere that the altimeter is based upon no longer exists.
war thunders altitude became coll and i need to found out my altitude
I'm new to this but in a way you kinda over complicated some thing so simple
Please explain. I am always looking for better and simpler ways to explain things
Watching this because of Microsoft Flight Simulator haha
Aviation class is why i’m here