Originally Posted by
sigler
You’re missing the point. Your last paragraph is what the original poster also understood from the clearance. However, the controller wanted him to keep climbing to FL230. That’s why he had to ask for clarification to begin with.
no I get his point. I just interpret the controllers words differently than he does. This is the problem with nonstandard worldwide phraseology, we hear the same words and get a different meaning sometime. I don’t think she did want him to keep climbing. I think she was trying to explain to him the difference between climb via and climb via except... clear as mud?