Brazil Transition Level
Hi,
I've flown into Brazil several times now and have a question about their transition level.
All my charts (jepp) say transition level will be "assigned by ATC" yet the ATIS at the airports I've operated into have always neglected to mention it during their broadcasts and the controllers have acted very confused when I've queried "sao paulo approach, say transition level", etc. They usually just repeat my altitude clearance. Apparently it's not something that is in their vocabulary, or perhaps I've missed something obvious.
I've been advised by my colleagues not to "press the issue" over the radio so I haven't, we just wait for an altitude clearance to come in "feet" instead of flight level and switch to QNH 1000 feet before leveling off at that cleared altitude. However, for some reason it bothers me not to be able to know the transition level.
Any advice is appreciated.