A question of height

[C6_Krasno]

Originally Posted by adapted.cat

But that's not the height that the altimeter reads. None of the aircraft are flying at 350 feet. They're flying at 1100 feet. And it can't be a difference between height above sea level and height above ground, either, because the mission in question was partly over sea and partly over land.

I think that the orders mean that your leader want you to dive from 1100 ft to 350 ft, because the next waypoint is at 350 ft ; if you are already at 350 ft and heading 090 the order (and the waypoint) would be useless, isn't it ?