LOU wrote on Mar 11^th, 2015 at 5:01pm:

The reason the altimeter is set the way it was in the old training film was to eliminate any slack in the linkage. You would go below the current setting by a small amount, then slowly come up to the current setting. Lou

That would have been hard to guess but makes total sense if you know the fine points of how the instrument works.
Don't want to hijack the thread but I've looked high and low for 707 performance data regarding EPR tables for climb. I've got EPR tables for T/O and cruise, but can't seem to find EPR for climb. Climb EPR data for the 727 is readily available but not the 707. Any help on this would be much appreciated. I even emailed Boeing. They referred me back to some generic 707 description site of theirs. Not what I'm looking for. You're my last hope.

Cheers
Brian

and now back to the topic.