Highest Flight Level?

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I just cleared 10,000 feet two weeks ago and got to 10,500 in a c172...talk about a long time coming up

 

[Shiftace]

6,500. That's about as high I needed to get for my PPL.

 

[z987k]

I just cleared 10,000 feet two weeks ago and got to 10,500 in a c172...talk about a long time coming up

treat it like a glider. 172's will go much higher, especially with some outside lift.

 

[Der_Meister]

FL139 in both a C-172SP and 182RG, If I had O2 I could have gone much higher in both. The C-172 was still doing about 200fpm at vx.

 

[skydisaster]

You can tell that's a PC12, because the Honeywell AP levels off 20 feet below altitude.

 

[sdfcvoh]

FL139 in both a C-172SP and 182RG, If I had O2 I could have gone much higher in both. The C-172 was still doing about 200fpm at vx.

from my stupider days.... FL180 (+280ft) in a C172.

 

[smt6]

FL430 G150

 

[z987k]

FL139 in both a C-172SP and 182RG, If I had O2 I could have gone much higher in both. The C-172 was still doing about 200fpm at vx.

Fly it like a glider! Well above Vy, and still getting 500fpm at 13k, and later even better. This is in a O-320-E2D engine(150hp) 172M.

 

[queeno]

got you all beat didnt fly it but controlled it,back in the day there was a LR28 that was flying from somewhere in the east coast to KMKE every morning at FL530.

 

[ackeight]

got you all beat didnt fly it but controlled it,back in the day there was a LR28 that was flying from somewhere in the east coast to KMKE every morning at FL530.

must have been doing something shady. Service ceiling is fl510.

 

[knot4u]

Might have been a LR29, the CIA bought almost all of them.

 

[mikecweb]

Might have been a LR29, the CIA bought almost all of them.

All 4?

 

[ackeight]

Might have been a LR29, the CIA bought almost all of them.

Yup they were doing something shady. I'm pretty sure the 29's ceiling is 510. However, it is the government......

 

[knot4u]

I think there was seven. Have worked on a 28 in the past. 55 wing, cj610-8 engines, 20 series fuselage=badass. Range was an issue.

 

[knot4u]

And it was LOUD!

 

[mikecweb]

There were 5 28s and 4 29s.

 

[knot4u]

Don't want to start an argument, but I used to work on s/n 007. Just saying.....

 

[SteveC]

Don't want to start an argument, but I used to work on s/n 007. Just saying.....

Often early serial numbers are built for testing purposes only, possibly never completed or flown.

 

[ackeight]

Often early serial numbers are built for testing purposes only, possibly never completed or flown.

very true. The first production phenom 300 is sn5

 

[Jimmy_Norton]

FL430 in an Ultra.