Altimeter Question
terry wrote in
:
On Apr 18, 3:33*am, "Barry" wrote:
Actually, there are a lot of anomolies around the world. Eastern
Europe and Russia doggedly cling to using windspeed in
Meters/second and have reluctantly accepted using feet for
altitude, though there are still a lot of published platform
altitudes of something like "2746 feet"
I learned to fly in France in the 1980s and they used a weird
combination
of
feet and meters. *Altimeters read in feet,and minimum safe altitudes
wer
e
charted in feet. *But charted obstructions and airspace restrictions
wer
e in
meters. *Everyone set QFE (altimeter reads zero on the ground) for
takeo
ff,
then reset the altimeter to QNH if leaving the traffic pattern.
*Flight
levels
began at 3500 feet.
Can any Europeans out there tell me if it's still like that?
Its still like that in australia, we use feet for altitude , but we
use meters for horizontal distance. OurVFR rules are to stay clear of
cloud by 1000 feet vertically and 1500 m horizontally. Hpa for
pressure except tire pressure which is psi
Meters is the international standard for vis, except in the US!
Bertie
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