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[David Megginson] > Thomas B. Passin writes: > > Say I want to compare the elevation to the minimum allowed by FAA > > regs for that location. > > First, a pedantic note (not addressed to Thomas; I just happened to > pick his message to join the thread) -- the height of the ground, or > something sitting on the ground, is 'elevation'; the height of an > airplane, or something else not sitting on the ground, is 'altitude'. > Which I know, being a pilot myself, but decided to ignore for the discussion at hand :-) Cheers, Tom P
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