This post is addressed to the many visitors of this site who repair, restore or simply collect old instruments like altimeters, turn and slip indicator, compasses, etc. However, former pilots and ...

Mid-Continent Instruments has received TSO certification and started delivering two new instruments, the MD15 two-in. altimeter and the MD25 two-in. airspeed indicator. “The MD15 altimeter and MD25 ...

The altimeter of American Airlines Flight 1572 may have been improperly set, misleading the pilots into thinking they were safely above Metacomet Ridge on their approach last week into Bradley ...

While the number of new directives and policy updates from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding the impact of 5G C-band wireless service interference on aircraft radio altimeters has slowed ...

Investigators have concluded that the failure of a Gemini Air Cargo Boeing MD-11F’s crew to set the aircraft’s altimeter correctly led to the tri-jet’s making an unusually low night-time approach to ...

Investigators claim a mis-set altimeter combined with heavy fog led to the fatal crash of a Let L-410 turboprop during an attempt to land at Yirol in South Sudan. Investigators claim a mis-set ...

A "faulty" altimeter blamed to have played a role in the fatal crash of a Turkish passenger plane in February 2009 in the Netherlands malfuncitoned and was fixed over a dozen times in a year before ...