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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated  |
We made it up to FL510...51,000 agl in the Lear today. Kinda spooky, living on the edge. Guess I don't care if I ever venture up there again. -61 C outside temp. Pretty dang cold too. Poor thing was outta power for sure.  "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | ||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
And no photos of the view outside? Son, I am disappoint. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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WOW ! How did you get permission from Center to go there ?? | |||
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Hole Lee Shit... That is awesome. I would be scared to death of a rapid depressurization. What sort of time do you have to don oxygen if that were to happen at FL51? I am a private pilot and have only ever been to 10,000 while acting as PIC. That was high enough for me  The "Boz" | |||
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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated |
7 seconds to put on the mask. We didn't stay up there more than 5-10 minutes. Orguss, it was too cloudy to get any real good pics unfortunately. I did get this pic on the descent into Martha's Vineyard though.    "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated |
It's an assignable altitude. However, we did request a block 490B510, which made it easier to climb up once we were light enough. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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| I am a leaf on the wind... |
50700 was all I could ever muster out of the 45. Used to cruise the 31 at 510 all the time. You gonna by the tie-tack? _____________________________________ "We must not allow a mine shaft gap." | |||
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Simple; request it. | |||
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 I miss flying. Though I've never been PIC in anything with that kind of performance. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
The highest I have been outside of a commercial airliner is 12,000 feet in a helicopter. We hovered over the peak of Mt. Charleston on a maintenance check flight. We had just replaced the mast so you gotta know I really, really trusted our mechanic  Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
That is really cool... But I bet it felt good to get your feet back on terra firma! "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Cabin pressure held well! RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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For us non-pilots, can I assume 51,000' is the upper limit of the Lear and flight controllers on the ground? P229 | |||
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| Happiness is Vectored Thrust  |
Highest I ever got in the Harrier was FL440. VERY uncomfortable - not so much from the worry about depressurization since the cockpit isn't pressurized anything like a commercial aircraft, but from the pressure regulator forcing oxygen into your lungs. Had to forcibly exhale. And sounded strangely like Mickey Mouse when on the radio. lol Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. | |||
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I can not address the Lear's limits, but as far as controlled airspace, altitudes between Flight Level 180 and FL 600 (18,000' to 60,000' referenced to standard altimeter setting of 29.92" Hg) are Class A airspace over the continental U.S. Flights within Class A must have an IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) clearance issued by ATC (Air Traffic Control). הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
I still wonder what happened to Payne Stewart, did they have a rapid depressurization and die from lack of oxygen, or from freezing so quickly they couldn't get the oxygen masks on, or did the oxygen system fail? We'll never know for sure. . | |||
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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated |
Good question. I'll have to check into thst. V-Tail is correct. ATC also works airspace above FL 600. They use 5,000 feet of vertical separation. In my 30 years of ATC we only ever had two above FL600 at the same time. Military SR71s. Back then we had to scramble and retrieve the code book, then ask where they were at. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated |
Thanks for your service! The Harrier must have been a treat to pilot. Bet you have some great stories to tell. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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Outstanding (and a little scary). Not much wind up there, apparently. | |||
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