DeltaAlphaNovember
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I've been to FL400 and FL410. Nothing exciting about it as far as I'm concerned.
Oh Corpies LX
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Beep
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Did you go that high so you wouldn’t have as many bird strikes on the trailing edges?
Hey man, don’t steal the joke from my old jet! Ha!
CFI A&P
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Did you go that high so you wouldn’t have as many bird strikes on the trailing edges?
Cruising at FL450 and M.72…..
Christopher Brian Bridges, Ludacris or just Luda, wrote a song about that.
Hey now, I’m just trying to keep the rolling roadblock out of the way.Did you go that high so you wouldn’t have as many bird strikes on the trailing edges?
If you think THAT's juvenile clubby stuff... well, don't join the military.
I can't even describe how virulently I despise headlines like that.Oh Commies LLX:
And in similar fashion;
Pushed Beyond The Limit: The Story Of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701
The pilots' desire to take the plane beyond its normal operating envelope ultimately resulted in disaster.simpleflying.com
"Pushed the limits" says the headline, while in reality it was just a couple of amped up kids who executed a garden-variety activity extremely poorly.
Had this been a car and they steered as poorly as they flew that night, they might have taken out a mailbox. But this was aviation. And as the aviation-wise say, "It's not dangerous, it's just extremely unforgiving of mistakes."
In the Lear at 510, it's not test pilot stuff, it's just usually VERY soggy.
Fixtur
Dunning-Kruger Expert
Hey whatever you get up to at 510 is your business. Ain't nobody else's.
I was talking about the possibility of doing stupid pilot tricks to get to FL500, or FL510, or whatever. We were well within reasonable operating parameters doing what we did, and had zero desire to run close to, or beyond, normal operations just for stupid bragging rights. Thus the "test pilot" quip.
I fully understand that there is the capability to get to FL510 in normal (although limited) operations.
Skåning
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You're off reserve?
DPApilot
GUYSH! GUYSH! GUYSH!
Never sat reserve minus the month I bid it for specific days off.
Autothrust Blue
"Well, on the Brasilia..."
The (recall) limitation is FL398.
What happens at 510, stays at 510... unless it comes hurtling to the ground and bursts in to flames.
Naw, man. He's off the Reservation.
DPApilot
GUYSH! GUYSH! GUYSH!
Uhh, what?
Max Power
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Did 41-45 a few times in the CE550/560. It was nice to climb that high to get above weather and traffic (especially along the east coast north/south) or make it across the country eastbound. The 560 Encore could do it relatively easily. But we were a roadblock up there at .70, so it will prepare me for XLR flying on the tracks when they start showing up (someday)
But while it’s quiet and calm (and useful), the idea of time of useful consciousness is always in your mind. The Bus is limited to 39 and that’s fine with me.
But while it’s quiet and calm (and useful), the idea of time of useful consciousness is always in your mind. The Bus is limited to 39 and that’s fine with me.
