Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
(Okay, maybe it was, but not filed as such.)
(3) This was a UK civil airport. Thinking about it, civil airfields in the UK normally do what happened here - circuit traffic on QFE, transiting traffic on QNH.
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No.
The CAA recommends the use of QNH at all times with QFE available on request and it's up to individual airfields to notify what pressure setting circuit traffic should use.
For instance, Fairoaks, Blackbushe and Farnborough all use QNH for visual circuit traffic. For the short period I did A/G at Dunsfold, we used QNH there too.
Suffice to say, it was up to ATC/AFIS to advise you of the transit traffic; if they didn't I think you should MOR it.