Flight levels over Russia ?

[andrasz]

Took a flight back from the east with SU over Siberia a couple of days ago, noted on the flight info display with some surprise that we were merrily cruising at exactly 36000 ft. When did Russia change from metric to feet ? Last time I sat in the pointy end in Russian airspace it was stricly metric throughout, with the associated level change on entering Russian airspace.

[inontime]

The metric FL 11,100 meters = 36,400 feet. Some cabin displays only convert to the nearest 1,000 feet.

[andrasz]

Nope, it was dynamic, jumping at 20-30Ft intervals during ascent/descent. The russian language metric display showed the odd 109something metric height corresponding to 36000.

[redED]

36000ft = 11000m

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Well, almost...

[wiggy]

11000m isn't a CIS flight level anyway, in either direction, the nearest westbounds would be 10600 metres or 11600metres...so to the OP, sorry, haven't a clue why you were seeing 36000.

[Intruder]

I flew at a metric FL yesterday.

[Denti]

@wiggy, 11.100m is a normal flight level in russia, 11.000m of course isn't.

[TopBunk]

Denti

What wiggy was saying is that the nearest westboundlevels are 10600 and 11600 metres based on the OP description of the flight.

You are, of course, correct in that 10100, 11100 etc are valid eastbound levels.

[andrasz]

Just spoke to someone flying the siberian route regulary, he confirmed its still all metric in RU & CN. He suggested a possible a miscalibration of the flight info system, as the a/c must have been on a metric flight level.