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Old 8th Apr 2014, 13:34
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India Four Two
 
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but as I progress, QNH will be adopted.
Binners93,

I suggest you ask your instructor if you can fly circuits on QNH.

I learned to fly in England (QFE, QNH, Barnsley, Portland, etc) and then moved to Canada after 200 hours. Since then, apart from a couple of £200 hamburgers in the UK (), I've never used QFE again.

A lot of my flying was at Calgary International (3550') and the nearby gliding club at Black Diamond (3800'). Students never have any problem adding 1000' to the field elevation in order to fly a circuit, mainly because they've never been exposed to anything else.

Even if you wanted to use QFE, you couldn't because you can't wind the altimeter back that far!

Good luck with your PPL.
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