Rob P wrote:Dodo wrote:
Sorry, T6 Harvard I don't really want to hijack the thread but I am curious. Is that (calculating and setting QFE from QNH and airfield elevation) standard practice where you fly? I've never come across it.
I have, it appears to be a thing. It has popped up here before.
Odd really, because you have to know the airfield elevation to achieve it, so you might as well cut out the calculation and simply wind off that much altitude.
Rob P
I was taught to do the calculation at first, it helps you to understand what all the numbers mean and why when you first start.
Once it’s all embedded, you realise you can just wind off the altitude, question your instructor about this and they nod!
But in the meantime, you’ve understood the difference between height and altitude, what a hPa is, what 1013 means, what a flight level is, what low and high pressure is, why that matters when you look at isobars.
Better than : “just fly on QNH the whole time” when you’re a student.
Anyone heard of “lies to children”, (that’s not derogatory btw)