Let's Talk About the Altimeter 

this video deserves so many more views. you ought to make more about flying

around 2:30 the animation looks like as the baro setting goes up, the altimeter display decreases. they actually work opposite though - if you turn the knob up, the altitude goes up. think of yourself flying and keeping altitude constant, but you fly into an area of lower pressure. you'll be descending during that time because if your indication is the same, the height of the low pressure air above you had to increase to keep that weight the same. you realize it's time to get a new baro setting and turn your baro down to say, 28. now you altitude is correct and shows you lower, not higher.

Great video and the graphics really help. Eric I'm desperate to know how you built the animation of the altimeter at 2:14... was it in powerpoint?

very good explanation Eric

Thanks for simplifying altimeters, I'm studying ground school and this video took an abstruse subject and made it fathomable. You should title your video "Altimeters for dummies".

Liked the vid. Gave a thumbs up, but I showed this vid to a younger person who, when 16, will start their flight training. They had trouble understanding the theory. Maybe you could dumb it down some for 12-15 year olds, so they could get a grasp of the altimeter. Just suggesting.

The pressure the altimeter senses is the weight of the column of air ABOVE to the beginning of space, not below! Using the standard atmosphere, starting at 1013.25 hectopascal and 15°C at mean sealevel at midlattitude and a temperature lapse rate of minus 6.5 °C per 1000 meters up to 11km, the pressure and density can be calculated by integration to determine the standard atmosphere pressure vs altitude relation for the sole purpose of calibrating world wide all altimeters. Very different from the terrain elevation, never to be called altitude . Crossing a pass where a wind is blowing across the altimeter will always display an altitude higher than the elevation of the pass, even though the collsman setting of a nearby airport has been correctly entered.

how did you do it can you share with me , thank you

Good job, a very nice explanation

I can imagine the infinitive variations of pressure we encounter in the atmosphere, and don’t call me Shirley.

Has wrong video and explanation at 2:15. Altimeter should indicate altitude goes up as you change altimeter setting goes up. People can get confused

Good explained, but the music is making me crazy. 😆

Epic sign off

3:16 as a gas is cooled its pressure decreases

Thanks for this cool info

Very gd video. Thank you.

"It's up to you not to fly into mountains when it's cold outside." This is actually the reason they no longer fly tours over Antarctica.

As you increase datum pressure, how altimeter reads lower values ? Below video it shows opposite ! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vLXwyWRZpRQ.html

I found a real old one. Wish I could send you a picture

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Background music is annoying

Oooooooooh. I get it.

Interesting 🤔

Great video. But there's no such word as "aircrafts". The plural form of "aircraft" is "aircraft".

I stopped listening to the video because of the music interfering

Shé dusnt explaining how to bé readings oné