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Air data systems provide accurate information on quantities such as pressure altitude, vertical speed, calibrated airspeed, true airspeed, Mach number, static air temperature and air density ratio. This information is essential for the pilot to fly the aircraft safely and is also required by a number of key avionic sub-systems which enable the pilot to carry out the mission. It is thus one of the key avionic systems in its own right and forms part of the essential core of avionic sub-systems required in all modern aircraft, civil or military.
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British Standard 2G199, Tables Relating Altitudes Airspeed and Mach Numbers for Use in Aeronautical Instrument Design and Calibration, 1984.
Dommasch, D.D., Sherby, S.S. and Connolly, T.F., Airplane Aerodynamics, Pitman, 1967.
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Collinson, R.P.G. (2011). Air Data and Air Data Systems. In: Introduction to Avionics Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0708-5_7
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