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What's wrong with this picture?

Look first at the altimeter -- it's reading 15,500 feet of altitude msl -- and then look next at the variometers: one is partly visible at the right edge of the image and the other is fully visible the right. The optimistic one is wrong, but the rate of climb is about 400 ft/min. The airspeed indicator is in the center: 44 miles per hour, just about stall for this glider, a Schweizer 1-26. The G-meter below it shows that there was a mildly bumpy ride through rotor on tow. The snow-capped mountains just over the coaming are the Virginia Mountains, northeast of Reno, Nevada. The compass reads 150 degrees. There is pressure in the oxygen system. But... there is nothing connected to the oxygen system. That's right, That's what's wrong. Good job!