Check Mags On:
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If you have metric altimeter in your 737, I will strongly recommend that you fly the approach in QFE METRIC - that would eliminate all the cockpit confusion and the "how much is that?" - "is it QNH this one?" - "are you sure?" at the time you are supposed to do your landing checks, and look for the runway. Keep your regular FEET altimeters in QNH for crosscheck.
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QFE hPa + runway (TDZE) elavation in hPa (from Jeppesen chart) = QNH hPa.
One hPa = 28.5 feet change
Vocabulary - when in QFE you are in HEIGHT (not altitude)...
Transition level and transition height...
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Learning QFE operations is a mere 3 hours classroom briefing (one of my claims to fame with my airline). I always gave a "QFE" approach in simulator initial or recurrent training, for the "normal all-engines approach practice" to selected crews likely to operate charters to Russia or China. Does not cost the airline training budget a penny more.
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As far as the after-landing beer - my favorite lager is "Baltika" - but most if not all of the Russian beers are excellent. Not water, like Budweiser or Corona... "Nah-zdaro-vyeh" is "cheers" in Russian...
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Happy contrails