Simviation Forum - Flight Level

May 20^th, 2003 at 5:47pm

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Hi, It has been long time since I have been in the forums and also long time since I have used flight simulator. So now I have time to get back into my cockpit. I have a question that will seem stupid to most: I recently installed one of the adventures. Pretty good adventure and helps with the rusty spots. Atc tells me to change my flight level to 150. How do I do this? What is flight level? I thought that it was the altiitude selector. I told you that I have been away for a long time. Thank you, Jakob Grin

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Reply #1 - May 20^th, 2003 at 5:56pm

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Flight level is a desired altitude that you should maintain. Flight level "150" is 15,000ft(i think). So basically it means change your altitude to 15,000 or whatever your flight level should be. You can change it manually or set auto pilot to do it for you. Grin

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Reply #2 - May 20^th, 2003 at 7:22pm

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"Flight Level" means a 29.92 pressure altitude measured in hundres of feet. The lowest level is FL180, so there is no "FL150"--that would just be "One Five Thousand", at the current altimiter setting.

When you hear "FL", (1) make sure altimiter is set at 29.92, and (2) multipy the number by 100 to get your altitude. 180 * 100 = 18,000. 350 * 100 = 35,000. Simple.

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Reply #3 - May 25^th, 2003 at 11:25pm

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A quick note to WZ...in Europe, some countries begin the Flight Levels as low as 3,000 feet! In the USA & Canada, of course, you're right about FL 180. But in Europe, there have been some ATC "deals" because some US pilots either didn't know, or forgot!

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Reply #4 - May 26^th, 2003 at 1:20am

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FS2002 uses the same Flight Level system throughout the entire virtual world Wink

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Reply #5 - May 26^th, 2003 at 3:22am

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A quick note to WZ...in Europe, some countries begin the Flight Levels as low as 3,000 feet! In the USA & Canada, of course, you're right about FL 180. But in Europe, there have been some ATC "deals" because some US pilots either didn't know, or forgot!

If you fly in the UK, you can have more FL levels than you'd care to count before you fly over the sea. They differ from British area to British area.

I have to say that it's my opinion that FL level is the one thing Flight simulator does better than it's done in the real world in having it universal.

When you consider that the whole point of FL is to achieve a "level playing field" for all pilots in the interests of safety, you'd expect that it would be consistant all over the world.

It seems ludicrous to me that it changes. If you're flying an aircraft at the lower FL levels and you're crossing different FL boundaries, you can be in the position of having to set 29.92 for part of the journey, true barometric pressure for the next part of it, 29.92 again and so on and so on. The opportunities for failing to change to the correct altimieter pressure or changing it at the wrong time seem rife, particularly in the UK.

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