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Old 3rd July 2006 | 21:27
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benhurr
 
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As an instructor I taught to land on QFE - zero=ground which is good for students and kind of makes sense.

Flying commercially I always land QNH - a very simple reason, the missed approach is always a climb to an altitude and not a height and therefore saves changing the pressure setting at a particularly stressful time.

RAD ALT is not used for CAT 1 approaches (hmmm...) as decision altitude or height is from the altimeters.

So for private flying depart on QNH, as all airspace surrounding a Class D airfield will be based on QNH so you arent going to bust airspace - land on QFE cos the altimeter will read zero so you know when you have hit the ground.
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