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Default Barometers and average pressure

Oh I'm not so sure.
It does get a little awkward with QNH and QFE, the latter being field
elevation of course.
Brian

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On 06/02/2020 14:11, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 06/02/2020 14:00, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Why do barometers have different centre readings? I thought 1000 mbar
was average, as that's what barometers always used to have as the
central reading ("change"), but Wikipedia says it's 1013. I've seen some
newer ones with 1010 as the centre.


In space the average is 0 mbar


The same as the pressure between your ears.