QFE: Altitude tape does read zero on ground...

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Hi folks,

 

wow, I fly the PMDG MD11 right from the beginning, but not before now I turned the QNH-QFE knob to QFE and found that the altitude tape changes...

 

Well, I was surprised not to see it reading zero... Currently I 'am' in FAJS (with the Martin Air MD11F).

Local weather report reads 1023hPa, field elevation is 5550 ft...

 

But the real pressure in that field elevation seems to be 835hPa (at sea level unreachable Lows), by then the altitude tape reads zero.

(And the water boils at 90°C...)

 

Clap, clap, everything fine!

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* The 1023hPa refer to sea level, ie. if FAJS were at sea level.