QNH???

Jughugs wrote:

On top of that... manned flight was invented HERE in the US... not in that
dental-challenged, pompus, take credit for everything, dung-hole!


Actually controlled heavier than air flight was, not manned flight. The
Montgolfier of brothers of France were making manned flights in hot air
balloons in the 1700s.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:
Jughugs wrote:

On top of that... manned flight was invented HERE in the US... not in
that
dental-challenged, pompus, take credit for everything, dung-hole!


Actually controlled heavier than air flight was, not manned flight. The
Montgolfier of brothers of France were making manned flights in hot air
balloons in the 1700s.

Actually, controlled *powered* heavier than air flight... really quite a
small insignificant subset ;-)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:44:01 +1300, Frank van der Hulst
wrote:

thanks for that frank, instructor basically told me WHAT QNH actually
was, I was just curious as to what the letters stand for

Cheers

Marlbra wrote:
my instructor told me not to worry about what "qnh" actually
means......... can someone here enlighten me please? i know it has
something to do with the barometric pressure and setting alt meter,
but what does QNH stand for...... as always thanks for your patience
guys and gals.....Im new here

QNH is the pressure that the air would be at sea level, if it wasn't for
the land all being above sea level. If you were to bore a hole down to
sea level, and lower a barometer down the hole to the bottom, then QNH
is what pressure the barometer would read. Theoretically.

If you set your altimeter to QNH, then it will accurately show you
altitude above sea level, so you can avoid busting into someone's
controlled airspace. It will also show the airfield elevation when
you're on the ground at the airfield.

Frank

good grief, now thats getting down and dirty.... thnkas for the
totally technical link, will not bother to wade through it lol....
appreciate the help though

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:48:31 -0500, Bryan Martin
wrote:

Try http://www.auf.asn.au/groundschool/umodule3.html on the second page.


in article , Marlbra at
wrote on 2/22/05 3:17 AM:

my instructor told me not to worry about what "qnh" actually
means......... can someone here enlighten me please? i know it has
something to do with the barometric pressure and setting alt meter,
but what does QNH stand for...... as always thanks for your patience
guys and gals.....Im new here

Awesome, that pretty much explains it..... even I got the gist of that
so cheers.... I wont lose any more sleep, looks like I started a mini
WW3 by some of the other posts..... gulp

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:45:30 +0000, John wrote:

Bryan Martin wrote:

Try http://www.auf.asn.au/groundschool/umodule3.html on the second page.


in article , Marlbra at
wrote on 2/22/05 3:17 AM:

my instructor told me not to worry about what "qnh" actually
means......... can someone here enlighten me please? i know it has
something to do with the barometric pressure and setting alt meter,
but what does QNH stand for...... as always thanks for your patience
guys and gals.....Im new here


From the above mentioned web page.
John


Q-codes

Note: the letters in the Q-code nomenclature have no literal significance,
these are remnants of an extensive notation system from the days of
wireless-telegraphy. There were some 200 three letter Q-codes each
representing a sentence, a phrase or a question, for instance QRM "I am
being interfered with"!. Some 30 Q-codes are still used by amateur radio /
morse code enthusiasts and the four below, plus QDM (the magnetic bearing
to a station), still survive in aviation. For a full listing of Q-codes try
www.cbug.org.uk/allqcodes.htm


QNE: is the ISA Standard Pressure altimeter setting of 1013.2 hPa. The term
QNE is now rarely encountered but if you set 1013.2 on the altimeter
pressure-setting scale while parked the altimeter will indicate the current
ISA pressure altitude of the airfield - which is the first step in
calculating density altitude. QNE is also the standard factory setting for
altitude encoding.

again........ brilliant, consise... my thanks

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:41:55 -0000,
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:

In article ,
Marlbra wrote:
my instructor told me not to worry about what "qnh" actually
means......... can someone here enlighten me please? i know it has
something to do with the barometric pressure and setting alt meter,
but what does QNH stand for...... as always thanks for your patience
guys and gals.....Im new here

It means do it "Quietly, No Hu-hu".


Well, you *asked* grin


Seriously, it is just a "code". an *arbitrary* symbol to which a particular
meaning has been assigned.

"Q" codes date from the days of Morse-code communications, where there was
a definite performance advantage to be gained by having "short-cut' symbols
for many "common" messages/phrases. example: it is *much* faster to
send the 3 Morse-symbols for "QRU" than it is to transmit "I have no traffic
for your station".

lol......... I'm hoping to have *controlled powered flight by about
2006!!! all going well... wish me luck :-)

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:20:38 +1300, Frank van der Hulst
wrote:

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:
Jughugs wrote:

On top of that... manned flight was invented HERE in the US... not in
that
dental-challenged, pompus, take credit for everything, dung-hole!


Actually controlled heavier than air flight was, not manned flight. The
Montgolfier of brothers of France were making manned flights in hot air
balloons in the 1700s.

Actually, controlled *powered* heavier than air flight... really quite a
small insignificant subset ;-)

Frank van der Hulst wrote:

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:

Jughugs wrote:

On top of that... manned flight was invented HERE in the US... not in
that
dental-challenged, pompus, take credit for everything, dung-hole!


Actually controlled heavier than air flight was, not manned flight.
The Montgolfier of brothers of France were making manned flights in
hot air balloons in the 1700s.


Actually, controlled *powered* heavier than air flight... really quite a
small insignificant subset ;-)

See? Every time I nit pick someone does it to me. It's the circle of
life Did anyone produce a controllable glider before the Wright model
of 1901? Lilienthal's gliders were point, glide, crash, repeat until you
kill yourself. If memory serves he had no steering capability.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

While in the USAF and stationed in the UK, we used "queer f*****g
English" (QFE) as a memory aid for the altimeter setting at English
airfields and "quite near home" (QNH) for the altimeter setting at US
airfields knowing that the former will read zero on the ground and the
latter field elevation above MSL on the ground.

Maybe just quit nit picking.

Just an opinion

Jean-Paul
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Frank van der Hulst wrote:

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:

Jughugs wrote:

On top of that... manned flight was invented HERE in the US... not in
that
dental-challenged, pompus, take credit for everything, dung-hole!


Actually controlled heavier than air flight was, not manned flight.
The Montgolfier of brothers of France were making manned flights in
hot air balloons in the 1700s.


Actually, controlled *powered* heavier than air flight... really quite a
small insignificant subset ;-)

See? Every time I nit pick someone does it to me. It's the circle of
life Did anyone produce a controllable glider before the Wright model
of 1901? Lilienthal's gliders were point, glide, crash, repeat until you
kill yourself. If memory serves he had no steering capability.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired