BackPacker,
Mostly yes, though I have heard occasionally 'not above altitude 1500 B***e QFE 1005'...
The RAF insistence on QFE does make some sense. It makes all approaches the same - particularly talkdowns - with the same heights at the same distances, ILS markers in the same places, &c. Jolly handy when it's your first (night IMC, naturally) approach to Baghdada, or Basra. One less thing to worry about.
Kyprianos,
You may be right - but in the USA I have also regularly heard controllers pass the pattern altitude over the radio to inbound and even outbound traffic, so there are clearly enough confused pilots to need that information...
Tim