FED - there is no-one hanging out the door - you follow the FDO and the rearcrew are strapped in their seats.
Skadi - we have a rad alt and bar alt hold but on the Mk3 it took a long time to desaturate so the bar alt hold tended to be used in the circuit.
If you have set your bar alt to match your radalt then what is wrong with using it? Modern ADCs are pretty accurate.
The indications are that they were flying circuits to this deck for training - anyone happen to know their SOP for that?