Snip: Bill Wrote

I cruise at 600 ft rather than 500 ft
above the even or odd thousand feet, too -

for the same

reason, why be where everybody else is?

Wrathall Mark wrote:

This a good point. When you learn to fly it is

important to learn to fly

accurately, but once you have flown in the

cockpit of a RVSM approved

airliner, it starts to scare you. These things

will hold 37000 feet +- about

3 feet for as long as you want. Sooner or

later there will be accidents

because the systems put the planes at exactly

the same point. Many near

misses in the past were probably avoided

because, although the pilots were

trying their hardest to be at the same point,

they just weren't that

accurate. I see the cruise reports from our

777's and I have never seen an

altitude reported more than 3" from an IFR

level.

Mark Wrathall

DENIS SMITH wrote:

Thank goodness for TCAS!!!  That system has saved my
buns at least once!  Knowing the altitude of every
aircraft within forty miles with a transponder
(encoded) really helps.  I suspect that pilots who do
not have transponders are more likely to be a little
off the hard altitudes, but there is no guaranty of
that.

 
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