especially when we had reported ready to drop and then had a 2--3 minutes delay i was thinking about you guys... i mean it's kindda hard to keep al that airspace cear of traffic ain't it...
The sectret of bringing a Skyvan up that high is:
7° Pitch up.... fly it and it will climb! At the end we had about 400fpm climb rate when all the folks in the a/c stayed all the way in the back... if they move the climbrate is gone.. that's all
took us 30 minutes to FL305... but that Skyvan has the Super -2 Conversion Engines.
Glad we had the help of Ian from Flying Pictures who did all the relevant preperationions with ATC. Still good to see it worked out.
Cheers
MB