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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation (flightaware.engineering)
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[โ€“] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for the learning! Before this thread, I didn't know enough about altitude to care about this question, but now I'm like "neat! Cool learning!".

[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

On a similar vein, there's indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, true airspeed, and ground speed. Aviation comes with a hard requirement of 5th grade math.