February 13, 20179 yr Wow! Sascha Rieger | EVO Developer What is EVO • How to get Evo 2016 • FS9 Evolution Forum
February 13, 20179 yr Forgot about that plane, nice shots! | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
February 13, 20179 yr Alone, unarmed... and unafraid! Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
February 13, 20179 yr No traffic advisories up there! Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
February 13, 20179 yr I guess you can see the stars very clearly from up there... Nice shots! Gabriel J. T. Rodrigues My mods in the library My photography (site updated!) English isn't my native language. Sometimes, I'm going to make mistakes or sound strange and for this I'm sorry. Please feel free to correct me at anytime. Thanks for your comprehension!
February 13, 20179 yr I bet you are lonely up there. :smile: Great shots. How did that go ... SR-72 pilot requesting 50,000 feet. Permission granted by ATC. Pilot's reply, "Roger, descending to 50,000 feet." Bill N7IBG
February 13, 20179 yr I bet you are lonely up there. :smile: Great shots. How did that go ... SR-72 pilot requesting 50,000 feet. Permission granted by ATC. Pilot's reply, "Roger, descending to 50,000 feet." I once had an instructor who told the class he heard a similar call requesting FL600 and ATC laughed and replied You're cleared if you can get that high. Then the pilot responded with leaving FL800 for FL600. Keith Guillory
February 14, 20179 yr Hi Keith, "I once had an instructor who told the class he heard a similar call requesting FL600 and ATC laughed and replied You're cleared if you can get that high. Then the pilot responded with leaving FL800 for FL600." Yes, not the usual conversation with ATC. :smile: Bill Bill N7IBG
February 14, 20179 yr This high altitude topic made me think of something comical but sad. A few years back there was a U2 operating VFR on top in ZLA - above FL600 (los angeles center airspace), ATC put the altitude into the flight progress strip as OTP (which is standard entry for VFR on Top) and it crashed ERAM (it's a computer system that basically works with ATC radar and the NAS). ZLA was ground stopped for some time (meaning no traffic in the airspace at all). | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
February 14, 20179 yr Author Thanks for all the comments! I once had an instructor who told the class he heard a similar call requesting FL600 and ATC laughed and replied You're cleared if you can get that high. Then the pilot responded with leaving FL800 for FL600. That reminds me of a joke that Rod Machado told a while back: https://youtu.be/fQUg9VmPBBE?t=6m31s WOW, are those the Rocky Mountains? Sierra Nevada mountains, that lake in the second shot is Mono Lake Will Korb
February 14, 20179 yr Similarly there was a conversation between an RAF Lightning pilot (mach 2 interceptor made by English Electric) and ATC. The controller asked the pilot if he could make flight level 350 by the coast. The Lightning pilot complied with the instruction and the controller radioed back after watching the numbers on the scope... "Actually, I meant by the French coast, not the English coast...." Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
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