I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused how anyone can assume that a RPFL is a 'high energy manouevre'. It is no more 'high energy' than me carrying-out aeros in a T67M or the like.
Mike X
I have no problems with using whatever the controller wants me to use. I was just highlighting that the practice of using QFE throughout the MATZ is not in compliance with what is written in MATS Part 1, which perhaps explains why those users who know and understand the requirements are expecting it to be QNH.
Of course, MATS Pt1 (and indeed much of CAP393) doesn't apply to military aircraft. I thought we all knew that.