CAA have caved in to the request from Australian airlines and lowered the airspace over Mt Cook to accommodate flights originating out of Oz heading for Sth America.
Despite overwhelming objections from glider pilots about the desire to maintain a freedom to operate we are now constrained to FL245...for now.
Interesting note in the ruling is the claim that further reductions will be required in the future for Turbo-prop flights...I assume out of Queenstown heading for Auckland.
I'll give the US of A some credit...they seem free of these encroachments on publicly owned airspace.
Just watch one of Bruno Vassel's flights in the Utah area. 18,000ft without any need to talk to the fun police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hze9WUSlzxk
They seem to be able to do this despite the vastly greater volumes of flying buses...and I mean really seriously greater volumes of flying heavy metal. I spent a season skiing in Utah (a miss spent youth) and you could always see 5-10 vapour trails in the sky at any time...and therefore you could assume a whole lot more at lowers levels as well.
Here in the land of the long white cloud you are lucky to see one IFR per hour or even per day.
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark people....
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