Originally Posted by
Denti
That is actually not all that unusual. Descends and climbs happen, quite often in fact, especially in europes pretty crowded airspace. They usually do know how much time they have for their service, the rest usually not. Had the case once where we climbed to 410 and then had to descend down to 200 right away just to get out of turbulences. Nobody ever asked what we were doing or why we were so low. They never noticed the descend, just that the turbulences weren't as severe anymore.
They probably asked no questions as you would have announced what you were doing. However, continuing high rate descent into mountains while keeping the captain locked out would have not gone unnoticed would it
