FODPlods story reminds of a story told to me by an old navigator of his flying days in Africa back in the 1960s.
On one occasion after start up they requested the local QNH and were passed a pressure which placed them several hundred feet underground. On querying the setting they were told imperiously by the tower that he was the person who had the authority and to set what they were told.
Rather than argue they acknowledged and were cleared for take-off.
Shirtly after departure the tower requested theIt passing height. To which the captain replied in a suitably portentous tone - “20 fathoms, rising!!”.......
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