X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:30:06 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from blu0-omc3-s6.blu0.hotmail.com ([65.55.116.81] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.11) with ESMTP id 4652704 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:41:46 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=65.55.116.81; envelope-from=gt_phantom@hotmail.com Received: from BLU0-SMTP157 ([65.55.116.72]) by blu0-omc3-s6.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:41:09 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [99.101.70.201] X-Originating-Email: [gt_phantom@hotmail.com] X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: gt_phantom@hotmail.com Received: from [192.168.1.64] ([99.101.70.201]) by BLU0-SMTP157.blu0.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:41:08 -0800 X-Original-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:41:12 -0500 From: GT Phantom Reply-To: gt_phantom@hotmail.com Organization: None User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: Re: Aussie flight rules References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Dec 2010 21:41:09.0072 (UTC) FILETIME=[1C480500:01CBA2EA] I believe that non-British military pilots preferred to refer to "QFE" as "Queer Fxxxing English," since pretty much no one else in the world uses that system (which results in a different altimeter setting for every aerodrome, often leading to disasters).

Not that I'd ever say that, of course. 

Blue skies,

Bill Reister


On 14:59, Jim Nordin wrote:

From a blog years ago:

“There seems to be some confusion between QNH and QFE creeping into this thread.

QFE is the barometric setting which causes the aircraft altimeter to read zero when the aircraft is on the ground at the aerodrome to which the QFE relates. Aircraft elevations when QFE is set are reported as "height". It is usual - in the UK - to land and take off with QFE set. A few years ago the RAF experimented with the US system where aircraft operated only on QNH (but with QFE available on request).

QNH is the barometric setting which causes the aircraft altimeter to show the aircraft height above sea level. This is the setting usually used for cross country flying below the transition level as it also shows your height above the chart datum. When QNH is set, aircraft elevation is reported as "altitude".

If flying above the transition level (in the UK generally 3,000 feet amsl) pilots flying in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules are required, and pilots flying VFR are advised, to use QNE. This is a standard setting of 1013.25 hPa. Aircraft elevation is reported as "flight level”.”

 

Jim

 

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Colyn Case
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 12:25 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Aussie flight rules

 

what is a QNH?

 

On Dec 19, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Frederick Moreno wrote: