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The standby altimeter shows totally different altitude (in case of flying in ~11.500m the difference is ~1500m).

Both selected for 1013 hPa.

Does anyone have official information regarding the tolerances of the standby altimeter in the Viggen?

On the other hand the aircraft wasn't always flying at high altitudes ... 😄

 

 

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The backup system does not compensate for compressibility, and will therefore show a different altitude compared to the main system.
Not sure how accurate the error of 1500m is however, but it should be there.

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Posted (edited)

If this would be true, the standby altimeter should show less than the main altimeter (higher pressure due to RAM compression leads to higher static pressure > lower altitude indication).

No matter of Mach number, the standby altimeter shows the exact same value @M0.3 and @M0.85.

 

 

 

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Just remembered this for earlier this year.
So I guess it works differently now, from what it did a few months ago?

 

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13 minutes ago, MYSE1234 said:

Just remembered this for earlier this year.
So I guess it works differently now, from what it did a few months ago?

 

Hard to say.

If I would make a guess, the standby altimeter didn't work correctly back then and still doesn't, and nothing was changed by HB since 4 years.

Maybe they had some more information when programming the instrument, but again I doubt that the standby altimeter should show higher values.

If the instrument was not compensated for re-compression, then it must show less altitude. So IMHO there is something wrong with it.

 

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On 9/13/2021 at 9:25 PM, TOViper said:

Hard to say.

If I would make a guess, the standby altimeter didn't work correctly back then and still doesn't, and nothing was changed by HB since 4 years.

Maybe they had some more information when programming the instrument, but again I doubt that the standby altimeter should show higher values.

If the instrument was not compensated for re-compression, then it must show less altitude. So IMHO there is something wrong with it.

 

 

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