Barometric altimeters are most common, and measure altitude above sea level using atmospheric pressure. Modern commercial ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator has finally been released and it’s fantastic. Unfortunately, it doesn’t explain many of the concepts you’ll need to know to master its aircraft: one of these is what the ...

Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...