Originally Posted by Brain Potter
As their airships appetite is for all things expeditionary we ought to simply adopt the practice employed by the vast majority of the avation world- QNH. Surely now that everybody has had more exposure to deployed ops we could ditch this parochial QFE nonsense? Train like we fight etc.. I heard that the main resistance to coming into line with everyone else is from PTC/CFS. Tail wagging dog again?
Brain
Having been through the QFE/QNH fiasco in the 90s, I think it is far more sensible to train student pilots on QFE. Much less maths involved. Used to enjoy watching baby pilots from low lying airfields trying to do PFLs etc at relatively high airfields (nothing as high as Nairobbery) and waiting for the thinks bubble that 2500 ft QNH is a bit different from 2500 ft QFE and they are now too low for a successful PFL. IIRC we almost lost a Tucano(?) following the QFE/QNH fiasco, he overshot at 20 ft IMC due to the difference. 0 for touchdown in the UK where the highest airfield is Leeds(?), much easier.
