Ahahahahaahah! You've really come up trumps this time 411A. ZRH ATC good? Dream on man, dream on! Perhaps you haven't actually been to ZRH since 1973, although I suppose their style of clearance suits the reckless 'dive and drive' approach style you so often advocate. I guess they are the indians to your cowboy. FRA? At least at LHR you'll know which ILS you're flying before base leg. And you'd better hope you never have an emergency on departure there because they are grade 1 hopeless, even after you've declared it.
Originally Posted by Airbubba
Does anyone still use QFE? Even American Airlines gave up on it after a couple of near crashes a while back. Why is it still on the ATIS at all?
Because there are a lot of Russian, Ukrainian and other Eastern Bloc airlines flying into the UK and they use QFE at home. Plus as someone noted if we they just said altimeter 992 someone from the states would set 29.92 instead of 992mb.