Weather during cruise
I would appreciate it if you would share your techniques or methods for weather avoidance/penetration during cruise (e.g. penetrating a front, etc.). I personally like to fly 2000 ft or so below optimum and avoid laterally as much as practical. On that respect I have heard people going to HDG SEL and limiting bank angle to 15. Furthermore, if your optimum altitude and max altitude are the same, are the applicable margins those for max altitude or for optimum altitude. Thanks in advance for your feedback.