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Old 24th Apr 2001, 18:45
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eyeinthesky
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Just to be clear: Your level does not dictate whether we are using RVSM or not. What does matter is the difference between your level and everybody else's. If you are at FL320 then all that means is you are probably westbound (since 310,350,390 are now eastbound levels). If you are not RVSM equipped then you will be separated by at least 2000 ft from everybody else. Count yourself lucky to be there as you are effectively blocking 3 RVSM levels (310,320,330). Come 24th Jan 2002 and you will be excluded from the airspace!

Also, please try and persuade your ops depts to file correct direction levels (ie FL 300, 320, 340, 360, 380 Westbound). It saves a lot of R/T time finding out whether the W/B a/c filed at 350 actually wants 360 or 340.



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