On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:01:43 +0000, Alan White wrote:

You are falling into the same trap as the journo's. The instrument
says 9947 so it must have actually reached that altitude, a bad
assumption.

No I'm not :-)

I'm confirming that the instrument was registering what was reported,
nothing more.

Alright let you have that. B-) Still no one can rely on that reading
being an accurate representation of the *actual* peak altitude acheived.

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