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Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:33 pm
by Rob P
akg1486 wrote:Stop confusing the students! :D


Why?

I have spent over thirty years being confused about flying. Why should they have it easy?

Rob P

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:19 pm
by T6Harvard
Perhaps we should rename the forum The Home for the Bewildered? It's the place for me, oh yeah, sure is, yep. :mrgreen:

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:07 pm
by johnm
T6Harvard wrote:Perhaps we should rename the forum The Home for the Bewildered? It's the place for me, oh yeah, sure is, yep. :mrgreen:


I remember Tom Lehrer having some connection with the Massachusetts branch....

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:32 pm
by TopCat
Rob P wrote:TCTSNBN?

That's one that will really baffle the newly arrived here :lol:


And the not so newly arrived!

Though it's only the C I haven't got. The rest was obvious in about 2s.

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:35 pm
by TopCat
2Donkeys wrote:I believe in the god of QNH. I believe in it for three reasons:

...compelling argument...

I believe in the god of cognitive dissonance.

I completely agree with all your points. However I will probably continue flying into airfields mostly on QFE.

Therefore you are a squirrel.

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:55 pm
by Paul_Sengupta
TopCat wrote:
Rob P wrote:TCTSNBN?

That's one that will really baffle the newly arrived here :lol:


And the not so newly arrived!

Though it's only the C I haven't got. The rest was obvious in about 2s.


The Car That Shall Not Be Named.

I don't think we should explain or we might be here for a long time.

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:30 pm
by skydriller
Paul_Sengupta wrote:I don't think we should explain or we might be here for a long time.


Rifle-bolts and hair-dressers covers it in a nutshell... :clown:

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:45 pm
by VRB_20kt
Hmmm. I was working along the lines that the C might be Curtiss. Definitely confused!!

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:48 pm
by T6Harvard
Is it possible the C is for CAKE? Or was @Paul_Sengupta not involved this time?

Seems C is Car...
I'm guessing that someone had a very unpilot-y motor vehicle? Something more than 3 years old, costing less than £50k, and not German, maybe?

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:03 pm
by Rob P
Ah how little you know of pilots, especially aircraft owners.

The largest proportion of us are disinclined to waste funds that could be diverted to our aerial mistresses, on groundlings' conveyances.

Rob P

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:08 pm
by T6Harvard
Rob P wrote:Ah how little you know of pilots, especially aircraft owners.

The largest proportion of us are disinclined to waste funds that could be diverted to our aerial mistresses, on groundlings' conveyances.

Rob P


I can understand that :mrgreen:
[7 yr old Skoda :lol: ]

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:23 pm
by Rob P
17 year old Jaguar :|
19 year old VW van :(

Plus a 19 year old RV-6 :D 8) :thumleft:

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:31 pm
by johnm
11 year old Subaru
14 year old Mercedes

1/5 of 31 year old TB20

:-)

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:34 am
by Paul_Sengupta
T6Harvard wrote:Is it possible the C is for CAKE? Or was @Paul_Sengupta not involved this time?


:whistle:

Nothing to do with me!

T6Harvard wrote:Seems C is Car...
I'm guessing that someone had a very unpilot-y motor vehicle? Something more than 3 years old, costing less than £50k, and not German, maybe?


MX-5.

It was the subject of much debate between a certain Vince C and Rob P.

Re: Why QNH when coming into an airport and not QFE?

PostPosted:Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:23 pm
by Rob P
Paul_Sengupta wrote:
It was the subject of much debate between a certain Vince C and Rob P.


Not really debate. We both agreed it was a very nice little car. We just had a difference of opinion on its role in the motoring world. :lol:

Rob P