{"id":7946,"date":"2024-04-29T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:25:14","slug":"whats-international-standard-atmosphere-isa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-international-standard-atmosphere-isa\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s International Standard Atmosphere (ISA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ref:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skybrary.aero\/articles\/international-standard-atmosphere-isa\">https:\/\/skybrary.aero\/articles\/international-standard-atmosphere-isa<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>ISA is known as the ICAO Standard Atmosphere, ISA is a standard against which to compare the actual atmosphere at any point and time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>ISA condition, at mean sea level:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Pressure of 1013.2 millibar<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Pressure fall at about 1 millibar per 30 feet (up to about 5,000 feet)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Temperature of +15 \u00b0C\u00a0<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Temperature falls at a rate of\u00a02 \u00b0C\u00a0per\u00a01,000 feet\u00a0(more precisely 1.98C) until the tropopause is reached at\u00a036,000 feet\u00a0<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>above tropopause the temperature is assumed to be constant at -56.5 \u00b0C\u00a0<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Density of 1,225 kg\/m3<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"embed-container\"><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kmShugNwtw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/isa-deviation\/\">ISA Deviation<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;ISA Deviation&#8221; &#8212; Tommy&#039;s Diaries\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/isa-deviation\/embed\/#?secret=Mjhcpw4MEC#?secret=kmShugNwtw\" data-secret=\"kmShugNwtw\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref: https:\/\/skybrary.aero\/articles\/international-standard-atmosphere-isa &nbsp; ISA is known as the ICAO Standard Atmosphere, ISA is a standard against which to compare the actual atmosphere at any point and time. ISA condition, at mean sea level:<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-international-standard-atmosphere-isa\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atpl-knowledge","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9854,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions\/9854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}