 How to measure height of an airplane?
"Tim Ward" <tim@brettward.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Joe Harrison" <newscontrol@crylo.com> wrote in message
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>> Say you are on the ground and want to measure the altitude of a plane
>> that is going over your head, what (simple) equipment can you use?
>
> Primary school trig. Take two simultaneous bearings from different places
> with a decent intercept angle and do the sums. ...sticks and bits of
> string
Hmm it sounds hard, I mean these things do move quite fast. Ta for thought
however.
I don't know anything about aviation and I imagined altitude measurement
might be a routine task with a well-known solution. Any other thoughts
welcome on how I convince CAA to do something.
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