Calculate percentile when logical is true

I am looking at a large data set from NASA flight. I am only interested in points when the airplane is higher than 8 km so I set up a logical:
alt8= alt > 8
which gives me back points with 0 (false) or 1 (true) corresponding with points below or above 8 km
Using only these true points when the height is >8, I would like to find the 99th percentile of another data point, vertical velocity.
vv99=prctile(vv,99)
In other words, I need to find the 99th percentile of vertical velocity when alt>8 rather than the 99th percentile for the entire flight.
What kind of loop or statement should I use to extract just the points when alt>8?
Thank you!

 Accepted Answer

Try this:
vv99=prctile(vv(alt8),99)

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knew i was overthinking it.... Thank you
My pleasure.
We all do from time to time.

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