Originally Posted by
Chesty Morgan
The same everywhere. You missed my point - How would you get cleared to a flight level if you weren't allowed to ever mention flight level below the TA?
Unfortunately ATC do use FLs below the TA. Its happened to me several times in N Ireland. And in XXX we were cleared to FL35 and we agreed this berween ourselves. And then the f/o descended to 3500' without telling me. Luck I caught it, but we still went 200' below cleared altitude. First time I have bust an altitude. This business of FLs below TA does cause confusion.
And I would second a stantard TA across Europe. I have been writing and complaining to the CAA about this for 30 years. But the CAA does not care. All they want is an easy life and fat pension, while safety comes a poor third or fourth.