AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands — A common malfunction with Boeing radio altimeters, compounded by several errors by pilots, led to last year’s fatal crash by a Turkish Airlines plane as it dropped short ...

How many times have you heard this during an instructional flight? Let’s say you were told to fly at an indicated altitude of 1,900 msl and because you got a little distracted, you’re now at 2,100.

Barometric altimeters are most common, and measure altitude above sea level using atmospheric pressure. Modern commercial ...

In the Spring of 2008, I sat down for lunch with Charlene Li -- an industry analyst who had made a name for herself covering digital innovation for Forrester -- at a place that would later seem ...

That timeline is probably relatively aggressive considering how slow the aviation industry normally moves... but man, it is scary to think that there are 1000 planes just flying around with faulty ...

* Faulty altimeter led to plane's reduced speed * Air traffic control gave insufficient directions * Boeing has since implemented altimeter measures * Turkish ...

Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...

Eclipse Aerospace will use the FreeFlight Systems RA-4000 radar altimeter system as standard equipment for the new production Eclipse 550s. The system, which integrates with the Avio Integration ...

There’s a strange synchronicity in the projects we see here at Hackaday, where different people come up with strikingly similar stuff at nearly the same time. We’re not sure why this is, but it’s ...

The short answer is: No. Just about all altimeter watches that I’m aware of are pretty bulky. That would include the Suunto Vector ($199), Casio Pathfinder ($150), and the Avocet Vertech ($160).