All, I will respond to the numerous Flight Level posts later. I am in class all this week so will probably not have much time to give due diligence to any response this week. I will try though.
Cheers Baron Carter -----Original Message----- From: Gene Mechtly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 20 July, 2002 11:06 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:21293] Re: Flight levels On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... In the thinner upper atmosphere, the altimeter gets less and less > accurate, and greater vertical separation is needed... Air-pressure altimeters will soon be replaced entirely by GPS devices even in small private aircraft at very low cost. Vertical separation of corridors does not have to depend on altitude for safety. I would like to see proposals from Baron and Marcus (and from any other experienced pilots) on their recommendations for altitudes and bearings for a new set of corridors, optimized in rounded m and km, of course, with *no* consideration of present corridors in feet and kilofeet. If there is agreement, we might want to promote them to world aviation authorities as a new standard, say, for 2005 implementation. Gene.
