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<blockquote data-quote="soonerwings" data-source="post: 1687659" data-attributes="member: 8035"><p>Exactly...PREDICTED and ESTIMATED are the key words there. If I had a dollar for every time actual meteorological conditions weren't the same as the predicted ones, well...I wouldn't be a rich man but I could buy a nice little stash of ammunition. Now...access to the GPS tracker/altimeter would provide pretty good real time info (even if GPS altimeters aren't quite as good as computer corrected barometric pressure altimeters) and I have to wonder why 4 lbs was selected as the number where they magically start to care. Heck a stray bolt can foul up an aircraft engine pretty well but there's got to be some method behind the madness. I can see the bureaucratic rationale for wanting to know about 60k, as that's where class A airspace (and presumably their responsibility) ends.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soonerwings, post: 1687659, member: 8035"] Exactly...PREDICTED and ESTIMATED are the key words there. If I had a dollar for every time actual meteorological conditions weren't the same as the predicted ones, well...I wouldn't be a rich man but I could buy a nice little stash of ammunition. Now...access to the GPS tracker/altimeter would provide pretty good real time info (even if GPS altimeters aren't quite as good as computer corrected barometric pressure altimeters) and I have to wonder why 4 lbs was selected as the number where they magically start to care. Heck a stray bolt can foul up an aircraft engine pretty well but there's got to be some method behind the madness. I can see the bureaucratic rationale for wanting to know about 60k, as that's where class A airspace (and presumably their responsibility) ends. [/QUOTE]
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