New tower approach calls
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QFE is almost no more used in military aviation (except by the funking french and their bad habits ;)) … it has been proven as accident-prone.
Might QFE be used at airshows where all the flying is done above the base? Or would that all be done with RAD ALT?
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Might QFE be used at airshows where all the flying is done above the base? Or would that all be done with RAD ALT?
Airshow is a good place for QFE indeed. RAD ALT … no way (did you noticed that RAD ALT have some attitude limitations? )
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Airshow is a good place for QFE indeed. RAD ALT … no way (did you noticed that RAD ALT have some attitude limitations? )
Yeah, up to 1500 AGL, but I figured RAD ALT might be good for precise height measurement for the show stuff, then they might use QFE between 1500 and TL.
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Last airshow involvement I had, what they did was to set the altimeter so that the numbers matched what was practiced to the location of the show…and that could/can/does vary depending on where you practice and conditions of the day - at each location. And what is to be performed during the show. But in any…er…event…the setting was done so that the altitude numbers presented during the show points stayed the same. So airshows are a very special case, and have very little to do with general flight operations.
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Heh heh DJ. American here, so I am curious as to what the metric system countries do for things like airspeed (do you do knots), range (nm), etc. Do you have to just put up with Yanks sticking to the old measures or do real foreign pilots use old measures as well.
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We basically do the same as you
altitude in feet,
airspeed in knots
distance in Nautical miles,
visibility in meters
Fuel is made mostly in liters or Kg I presume for larger Ac
Main difference is pressure I’d say, we do hPa, you yanks do inHg
and we all speak english in the air
The french are again the exception on that one, they don’t say One two they say Unité deux
As far as flying units, the real difference is Russia they’re all meters, km/hour, ….
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Last airshow involvement I had, what they did was to set the altimeter so that the numbers matched what was practiced to the location of the show…and that could/can/does vary depending on where you practice and conditions of the day - at each location. And what is to be performed during the show. But in any…er…event…the setting was done so that the altitude numbers presented during the show points stayed the same. So airshows are a very special case, and have very little to do with general flight operations.
So thats a yes, QFE.
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Yeah, up to 1500 AGL, but I figured RAD ALT might be good for precise height measurement for the show stuff, then they might use QFE between 1500 and TL.
I said aTTItude limitations, not altitude.
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I said aTTItude limitations, not altitude.
There’s nothing wrong with my attitude! Kidding. Woops, my bad. Obviously I haven’t noticed RTFM for me then…
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@Red:
As far as flying units, the real difference is Russia they’re all meters, km/hour, ….
The joys of Su-27 Flanker 1.5 (and later Flanker 2.0) of having to convert Kmh-1 to knots on the fly in my head to get any idea of what was going…oh and also learning a bit of cyrillic so i knew what master mode I was in!