highest flight in a cessna 152/172?
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Not in a Cessna, in an Archer, taking a teenage lad back to his home in the Florida Panhandle, after he had helped me sail a boat to Tampa Bay.
Approaching a very active naval air station, the enroute controller asked us, if it was not too inconvenient, to climb to 11,500 feet to avoid military traffic.
(Normally, in a glider, we start using Oxygen by 12,000 feet). So I agreed to the suggestion. And turning to the lad, I remarked "Air Traffic has asked us to climb higher, I'll be OK, because I am not a smoker, but you do smoke a lot. Let me know if your fingernails start turning blue......"
He spent the rest of the trip furtively checking his nails....
Don't suppose it had any effect on his addiction....
Approaching a very active naval air station, the enroute controller asked us, if it was not too inconvenient, to climb to 11,500 feet to avoid military traffic.
(Normally, in a glider, we start using Oxygen by 12,000 feet). So I agreed to the suggestion. And turning to the lad, I remarked "Air Traffic has asked us to climb higher, I'll be OK, because I am not a smoker, but you do smoke a lot. Let me know if your fingernails start turning blue......"
He spent the rest of the trip furtively checking his nails....
Don't suppose it had any effect on his addiction....
