well... I've not seen an altimeter in US aircraft that can dial out 5000ft
of altitude.. that would mean the altimeter would have to be adjustable from
29.92 to 24.92, and mine only goes to 28.10

BT

"Stefan" wrote in message
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BTIZ wrote:

The bottom line is, the discussion was brought up with the AF T-Bird
doing
acro and not computing the altitude needed at the top of a maneuver to
safely pull out above ground level. Some argue to set the altimeter to
zero
elevation before takeoff. It just can't be done in many places out west.

The problem is, you usually trainig acro at your home base. So you get
used to the "floor" altitude needed in that place. Chances are that you
get so accostomed to that altitude that you fall back to it even when
you fly at another place. Y This is eliminated by settinig the altimeter
to zero (i.e. QFE). And, btw, I've yet to see an altimeter that can't be
set to QFE even at 5000 ft elevation, but what do I know.

Stefan