Lakes - FL or Alt?
Hi all,
After a poor year's flying last year due to financial constraints I'm just about back on the horse. Having gotten the IMC rating in January I'm beginning to get the confidence back and am looking at flying further afield for day trips with the girlfriend etc.
Anyway, to the point. I know there's a lot of talking going on with the transition altitude and standardisation, however I'm looking at a couple of hours flying over the lakes with my dad in a couple of days time and wondered what everyone would do. Having chatted to a few pilots down at the field the general attitude is to fly as you would any other VFR flight, only higher i.e. QNH for terrain clearance and talk to Leeming/Linton for as long as possible. There is, however, an article in the latest issue of Flyer stating that if we are to go high enough (I was looking at just a transit over at 5000' ish, no valley flying!) then it should go without saying that we should be on 1013, flying FLs using the quad rule and making sure the selected level allows for terrain clearance whilst keeping below the airways.
I've no problem doing either, but what would you do? The route is Full Sutton -> Harrogate -> Penrith -> Dean Cross -> Whitehaven -> Harrogate -> Full Sutton.
Cheers.