Pressure altitude is the height of an aircraft above a theoretical standard datum plane, corresponding to an altimeter setting of 29.92 inHg, and is used as a baseline for weather-related calculations ...

Your smartphone already does an amazing variety of things. It's your camera, navigation guide, and compass. You may not know that it can also function as a real barometer and altimeter, allowing you ...

The thing is, all altimeters work off barometric pressure. That’s how the gadgets know you’re going up or down changing air pressure as you ascend or descend pushes in or pulls out a tiny membrane ...

Details are slowly starting to leak out about the next smartwatch from Samsung, rumor has it that the device will be called the Gear S3 and it will be round like the version before. The new smartwatch ...

A three-day National Transportation Safety Board hearing about the collision of a flight from Wichita, Kan., and a U.S. Army helicopter dug into problems with altimeters, chopper routes and busy ...

Norwegian investigators have disclosed that they are probing a low approach involving a Wideroe De Havilland Dash 8-100 at the northern Svolvaer airport last month. The aircraft dipped 700ft below the ...

It’s hard to believe that in 2016 Oris was the only the second watchmaker to offer a mechanical altimeter in a wrist watch. The first was a Breva model costing over $100,000, while the Oris, in ...