the adjustment range to set the altimeter to the proper pressure will not
move to adjust 2800ft of altitude.

try it some time, to adjust from a "standard 29.92" at sea level. Move that
altimeter to my airport at 2833MSL and it still says 29.92, now try to move
it to read 0, this would require you to move the setting more than 2800 feet
which exceeds the capability of a standard aviation altimeter.

BT

"S Green" wrote in message
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Why not
"BTIZ" wrote in message
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you can't set QFE when the field elevation is that high above sea level

BT

"Joe Morris" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" writes:

The pilot survived, right?

His health is fine.

His career, I sadly suspect, is not.

A comment from one of the ASF people at a CFIRC I was at over the
past weekend was that he is now flying a desk at the Pentagon.

The same man stated that the problem was that the pilot had become
too comfortable with practicing the maneuver at his home base, which
was about 800 (+/-; I don't recall the exact number) feet lower
than the airfield at which the accident occurred. At the accident
location he set up the split-S so that the top was at the proper
altitude MSL -- at his home base, meaning that the entire maneuver
was executed 800 feet lower than it should have been.

I have *no* military jet experience, but especially for airshows I'm
somewhat surprised that there isn't an altimeter set to QFE to serve
as a sanity check against exactly this sort of problem.

Joe Morris