Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:51:38 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [64.4.47.1] (HELO hotmail.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.3) with ESMTP id 437450 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:08:41 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.4.47.1; envelope-from=bill_kennedy_3@hotmail.com Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:57:02 -0700 Received: from 206.173.55.76 by by9fd.bay9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:56:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [206.173.55.76] X-Originating-Email: [bill_kennedy_3@hotmail.com] X-Sender: bill_kennedy_3@hotmail.com From: "Bill Kennedy" X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net X-Original-Bcc: Subject: RE: [LML] Re: LIVP Flying Above 29,000'...RVSM's Effect? X-Original-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:56:22 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Original-Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Sep 2004 00:57:02.0943 (UTC) FILETIME=[65F366F0:01C4A688] Hold on to your hats folks. Doesn't it seem like kind of an odd rule? Wonder why AOPA, EAA, etc. have been so quiet. My guess is that there is no such rule. Let's check it out before we cry "The sky is falling, the sky is falling". Bill Kennedy >From: YoSamuel@aol.com >Reply-To: "Lancair Mailing List" >To: "Lancair Mailing List" >Subject: [LML] Re: LIVP Flying Above 29,000'...RVSM's Effect? >Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:35:42 -0400 > >This is the one really stupid rule if correct. The whole idea of RVSM is to >increase the airspace above FL290 so the big jets don't have to cruise at >the >lower flight levels where gas mileage is not good. We're using RVSM over >the >Pacific and the Atlantic. Everyone fights for the higher flight levels. >Remember we're talking about the government bureaucrats in the process of >making >up rules. Reserving the airspace between FL190 and FL270 for big jets will >render the space empty. > >Dave Link.