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any airlines fly this high?
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:49 pmby Chris E
I have been learning of the atmosphere and my teacher says that major airlines fly at over 8 miles high, which is over 40,000 feet. I had thought that mostly airlines flew at about 30,000-35,000 feet. Am I right, or do airlines really fly that high? I know the Learjet can get up there, and several others can, but it just seemed to be a bit too high.
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:57 pmby beefhole
Only for very, very long flights. For example, a B744 on a KLAX-YSSY (Sydney) route will cross at 40,000+ft sometimes. However, you are correct, most airliners cruise at 30,000-37,000'.
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:09 pmby Hagar
Not really relevant now but Concorde's operating altitude was 60,000 feet.
I found this interesting article.
http://www.travelscholar.com/concorde/Whilst traditional subsonic jetliners usually reach a cruising altitude of thirty to thirty-five thousand feet, Concorde nearly doubles that, cruising at an altitude between fifty-five and sixty thousand feet. British Airways claim that "only astronauts fly higher," and that the altitude puts you far above the weather, allowing for an extremely smooth, turbulence-free flight.
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:51 pmby Chris E
ok, so some do get that high, then my teacher isn't wrong, i never would have guessed the concord went that high either, wow, that could explain why in previous versions of FS I crashed too much in that, hehe
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:55 pmby jrpilot
Even on some short flights (1500 miles) aircraft sometimes cruise up that high, either it may possibly be cost efficient (tail wind) they are just running a high cost index (this happended to me so when they were off schedule and need to catch up) or ATC has asigned them that altitude due to heavy traffic or any sort of reason....
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:33 pmby Chris E
oh, ok, thanks, I will add that stuff to my project to get more accurate facts, thanks a lot everyone
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:12 amby Scottler
Highest I've ever flown in all my time with CAL was FL390.
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:36 pmby chomp_rock
Last overseas flight I was on (BA 747-436) cruised at 42,000.
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:26 pmby Rocket_Bird
Flew over the pacific various times at around 42000 ft
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:33 amby Craig.
did 41,000 on a flight home from charlotte to gatwick in an A330
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:41 amby jrpilot
did 41,000 on a flight home from charlotte to gatwick in an A330
I bet you it was US Airways?
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:46 amby Craig.
yup.
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:03 amby AlphaBravo
When i went to canada last summer we went to 40,000 due to bad turbalance
Craig
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:16 amby Rifleman
On my last west to east run over Canada, we were at 37,000 and came upon some high weather over Winnipeg, so up went the throttles and up went the nose......41,000 was where we finished the flight........
Re: any airlines fly this high?
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Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:25 amby Craig.
......41,000 was where we finished the flight
Now thats what you call a high altitude airport:)