Managing Altimeter to Satisfy Triggers

[ESzczesniak]

I have just completed BFT and am moving on the AAT. In BFT, the altimeter was rarely messed with and didn't come in to play much, but it seems AAT might be different.

 

In AAT01, the altimeter is reported in the briefing as QNH 29.72, QFE 29.67.

 

Much of my altimiter knowledge is more civilian aviation, but I feel I understand these concepts well.

 

QFE: altimter setting to read 0' barometric on the ground at a certain location.

 

QNH: altimeter setting to read the airports true elevation ASL.

 

In the civilian world, I would set QNH below TA/TL (FL180 in the USA) and standard 29.92 above. So I feel I should set 29.72.

 

The problem is this doesn't seem to give me an altitude that matches what shows for my aircraft in the F10 view at all, and what the mission seem to read for my altitude. While flying at 29.72, my altimeter reports 14,000, but I am being yelled at by the FE to maintain angels 14 and the F10 map view shows about 15,060'.

 

So, am I misled somewhere in my understanding, or what should I do to satisfy the triggers in the mission?

 

Thanks for any help.

[Sabre-TLA]

Someone had reported that the A-10C pilots never set QFE (I'll post a link if I can find it again).

 

Try flying with 29.92 and that should work for the triggers.

 

EDIT: Here is the link. It's an old thread but some of the more recent comments confirmed that it wasn't realistic to set QFE for the A-10C.

Edited February 12, 2018 by Sabre-TLA
Found link

[ESzczesniak]

Thanks, I will keep 29.92 for future missions.

 

That would be interesting information if you do find a link. I would have thought combat pilots would be very disciplined with things like altimeters, but could also understand that once you're fence in/behind the FLOT, there may be no reliable knowledge of altimeter settings and it wouldn't be useful.