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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
what is a QNH?
On Dec 19, 2010, at 7:09
PM, Frederick Moreno wrote:
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