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22nd Apr 2016, 20:59

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Airbubba

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I know that earlier I mentioned being an altimetry pedant.....so, airbubba...QNE isnt the standard pressure setting, as you seem to imply. Rather, it is the altitude of the runway that would be read on the altimeter if standard were set....and is used if the pressure was either too low or too high to set on the altimeter.

Thanks for the correction

, folks have set us straight on this one before here on PPRuNe:

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Sorry to be a bit pedantic, but QNE is not in fact an altimeter setting.
QNE is the elevation of the airfield (threshold?) when 1013.2 is set on the altimeter.

http://www.pprune.org/questions/6580...tml#post622468

I was trying to say when the altimeters are set to 'standard', i.e. 29.92 inHg or 1013.2 hPa.

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