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Old 9th Sep 2013, 21:56
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A and C
 
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Wrong !

The plates used by most of the world don't have the QFE values printed on them because it is only in a few places in the world that QFE is used.

I personally think that it is almost suicide to keep changing from QFE to QNH, as a single pilot probably the most demanding thing you will ever do is a GA when the weather is on minima, changing the altimeter setting from QFE to QNH when going around and then changing it back for the next approach is introducing a potential error that is unnecessary........... It short all you are doing is making extra work that if done wrong has a chance of killing you...... Why do it ?

The only justification for QFE I can see is in the fast jet world when using PAR to recover, in this case it moves the workload from the cockpit to the controler.

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