BIG AVIATION REPORT

Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 08:13:25 MT

FLYING · GA

DOES ATC KNOW WHEN YOUR ALTIMETER IS SET INCORRECTLY?...

Question: I’m a student pilot with about five hours experience and yesterday the CFI distracted me and, when I looked away, he reset the altimeter so it was a couple of hundred feet off.

SCOTT: This is the kind of thing that shows up at the FBO desk two weeks later. Screenshot it, then go look at your own field’s version of the same problem.

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