Sorry to burst your bubble BDiONU, but I have, personally, worked a Tornado (albeit an F2) at significantly higher than FL500
and still going up…………Love to tell the rest of the story, but I’d have to shoot you afterwards.
And I got into trouble for 'taking five miles' with a non-mode C TR-1 (if you get the significance); thing was, it was VERTICALLY.
Got to go - there’s a black sedan just pulled up………….