BOAC wrote:
QFE ops require an extra amount of airmanship/care which is probably lacking today. Back in my day, we had to hand prop our turbojets! And we also had to distill our own Jetfuel. Jet-D we called it - because we had to go out and kill the Dinosaurs that became the oil that became the fuel.
Okay, no he didn't write that last part. . .
Break break.
I do QNH into QFE fields several times a month. It truly is a pain in the butt to get a clearance, read back the clearance, look at a table, set one altitude in feet and say a totally different number in meters.