High Helos?

Could have been Descending or climbing, avoiding traffic, or not even been
in US airspace.... There is a lot of non-US airspace




"Allen" wrote in message
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"SelwayKid" wrote in message
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Newps wrote in message
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Robert M. Gary wrote:
The other day I heard on Center "Helicopter 1234 with you Flight
Level
340". This can't be possible, can it?


Nope, not possible. FL340 is not a useable altitude until January
2005.

Care to elaborate? Do you mean we have been doing something illegal all
these years?

In the U.S. all Flight Levels 290 and above are odd thousands to give 2000
ft. separation. E.G. FL 290 eastbound, FL 310 westbound, FL 330 eastbound
etc. Newps is probably talking about the reduced separation coming up if
you have certain equipment installed?

Al

wrote:
Could have been Descending or climbing,

Not according to the original post.


avoiding traffic,

If you're level at 340 you are causing all sorts of problems.


or not even been
in US airspace.... There is a lot of non-US airspace

Can't be.

Newps wrote in message ...
wrote:
Could have been Descending or climbing,

Not according to the original post.


avoiding traffic,

If you're level at 340 you are causing all sorts of problems.

Maybe that was as high as he could go. We were at FL 320 at the time
and I don't remember center talking to any other low traffic. I
assumed this freq was only for FL traffic at the time.

-Robert

Robert M. Gary wrote:

Newps wrote in message ...

wrote:

Could have been Descending or climbing,

Not according to the original post.


avoiding traffic,

If you're level at 340 you are causing all sorts of problems.


Maybe that was as high as he could go. We were at FL 320 at the time
and I don't remember center talking to any other low traffic. I
assumed this freq was only for FL traffic at the time.

If you were in the US you were not level at 320.

Newps wrote in message ...
Robert M. Gary wrote:
Maybe that was as high as he could go. We were at FL 320 at the time
and I don't remember center talking to any other low traffic. I
assumed this freq was only for FL traffic at the time.

If you were in the US you were not level at 320.

I didn't say we were level, I said we were at FL 320.