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Old 12th January 2005 | 01:04
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Old Smokey
 
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QFE is nice for student pilots doing visual circuits, and not venturing more than 4 or 5 miles from their base airport (I used it as an ab-initio student pilot at an 800 ft AMSL aerodrome).

Beyond that, all elevations, MSAs, MEAs, LSALTs, obstacle elevations, every damned thing, is published as elevation AMSL, and QFE is totally innapropriate.

QFE is an archaic dinasour, and belongs with all of the other dinasours, in the museum.

A pox on QFE!
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