Don't worry Glueball. Of course you are right, we don't use flightlevels in meters in Western Europe.
Everybody knows that, but it was news from a news agency and they use km for the general public.
Those details are not important. What is worrying however is that collegues are flying in the crowded skies of western Europe and don't realize that something is wrong when the radio is quiet for some time.....('
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