Originally Posted by
Markos.
it happened to me twice last month over France. On initial contact with the French ATC, the first question was: are you RVSM approved? Our answer was negative so they instructed Us to descend to FL280. We were cruising at FL400.....we arrived to AAR stretching our fuel.
It's been a while since the last time I requested, but when I did so, my answer was always "negative rvsm, state a/c". It always worked...