Flying Approaches on QNH
Always when landing at an aerodrome in the past, I have always set QFE, and it is what I would teach my students, however the school I work for has a policy that we and students should be taught to leave QNH set and even fly circuits and appoach to land with QNH set, not a problem at the "home" airfield because the qnh leads to a easy number for flying the circuit. However I feel for landing away at other aerodromes this could lead to confusion, ie; having to remember to add circuit height to local elevation in order to fly the correct circuit height if using the QNH. If flying cross country on a regional pressure setting you would need to reset to the aerodrome QNH,so why not just reset to QFE when inbound. This could be especially misleading flying (that is flying on the QNH) into a high airfield such as Dunkeswell or Compton Abbas.
Just wondering what anyone elses opinion is on this policy? Or am just showing my inexperience as an instructor.
Last edited by portsharbourflyer; 29th August 2006 at 23:02.