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Old 12th Jan 2010, 10:20
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Andu
 
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QFE comes with a British passport. We colonials never saw the need (as so many Poms, particularly of the ex-RAF variety, apparently do) of having the altimeter read zero at touchdown.

We prefer QNH, where the altimeter reads an altitude that will let us know how high we are in relation to any hills we may be sharing the airspace with, and we seem to be able to cope with the incredibly difficult mental arithmetic involved in adding 1000' (or 1500' if you prefer) to the height above sea level of the field we're landing on when planning our circuit.
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