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15th Dec 2014, 18:49

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Alex Whittingham

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QNE is used on take-off or landing at high altitude airfields when you can't wind the pressure setting down far enough to set QFE. A (much more widely used) alternative is to use QNH, unless the QNH isn't available (unmanned strip etc)

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