When the last QFE/QNH debate took place the FJ and (to a lesser extent) RW fleets did not do a significant amount of flying away from the "comfort zone" of UK Mil ATC procedures. Surely now that everyone is a bit more worldy-wise we can change some of our anachronistic and parochial habits. It speaks volumes that QFE is only common at UK Mil aerodromes and in former Soviet countries. Adherence to QFE as our UK standard not only continues to breed less terrain aware crews, but also goes against the maxim of "train-like-you-fight". To me, it makes sense to inculcate our young crews with QNH right from the start of their careers. Instead, we expect them to adapt whist on ops, in somewhere hilly, where people are trying to kill you (that just the ATC!) I am told that the strongest resisitance to QNH came from the CFS world (for teaching PFLs etc). The worst story I heard was a former Woodvale Stn Cdr who decreeed that, as there was only about 1 mb difference, QFE would be used in the local operating area vice regional QNH. Ergo, a whole generation of UAS students who thougt that QFE was perfectly valid at 20-30 nm from the aerodrome.
As we become a smaller and smaller part of total UK traffic surely there becomes a point where even procedures that have reasonable logic (roll vs touch-and-go) become less defensible simply on the grounds that they are non-standard.
And who has been teaching pilots to drop the "Clear ..." from all the clearances?