Originally Posted by
Dont Hang Up
If you ask an airfield for its QNE you will be given an elevation. To fly relative to that elevation you will set your altimeter for QNE
Admitting now this was not easy. Seeing how you set an elevation value into the collsman window. Because I imagined an airborne craft calling in.
What you had in mind, respectfully, is someone on the ground dialling the knob until the readout matches the reported value.
If this bright person happens to have his calibrated altimeter exactly on the isobaric surface as the aerodrome reference point, he would then see 1013.25 / STD / 29.92 / 760 on the sub-scale. That's why all and either of these values are also called QNE.
Couldn't be less confusing,
