FL 050 or FL 50 in Standard Pressure Region ?
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Notta Simfalt
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FL 050 or FL 50 in Standard Pressure Region ?
My AIM RAC 2.11 has a note that it should be expressed as FL 50 but I hear a lot of FL 050. Any other references for either ? I wonder if ATS and FSS have to fill in 3 digits on their puters.
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Okay, so it was a long time ago that I was in the communications business.
But from a communications point of view, the more mindless you can make it, the less chance of error.
If I heard less than 3 digits for a FL, I asked for a say-again. I didn't have to bother interpreting what I had heard.... unless I was REALLY sure in which I case I may simple ask for a confirmation of xxx.
Personally, I think the same argument applies to US runway numbering. If I heard less than 2 digits, I gotta get confirmation. What, the wind is from 30, not 030???
I have yet to be convinced that the problem they are supposedly solving with that system has not been replaced with another. Now, since I am a relatively recently-minted pilot, someone please convince me otherwise.
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But from a communications point of view, the more mindless you can make it, the less chance of error.
If I heard less than 3 digits for a FL, I asked for a say-again. I didn't have to bother interpreting what I had heard.... unless I was REALLY sure in which I case I may simple ask for a confirmation of xxx.
Personally, I think the same argument applies to US runway numbering. If I heard less than 2 digits, I gotta get confirmation. What, the wind is from 30, not 030???
I have yet to be convinced that the problem they are supposedly solving with that system has not been replaced with another. Now, since I am a relatively recently-minted pilot, someone please convince me otherwise.
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