Title: What is the average altitude of an airplane flight? Does weather affect flight altitude? - Quora
Headings: What is the average altitude of an airplane flight? Does weather affect flight altitude?
What is the average altitude of an airplane flight? Does weather affect flight altitude?
Content: I welcomed the opportunity to get out of the office (I was the Training Manager for the company). On pre-flight preparation, I noticed the captain had filed only for 18,000 ft (FL180) for the short trip to Singapore (186 nautical miles). I asked him why so low… he looked at me rather astonished and said “My job is to get the VIP guest there as quick as possible, burning a little extra fuel is not an issue, so I wil
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About 6 years ago I was assigned to go to Kuala Lumpur to fly with one of our line captains based there while his copilot was on vacation. This was a Falcon 2000 privately owned jet. I welcomed the opportunity to get out of the office (I was the Training Manager for the company). On pre-flight preparation, I noticed the captain had filed only for 18,000 ft (FL180) for the short trip to Singapore (186 nautical miles). I asked him why so low… he looked at me rather astonished and said “My job is to get the VIP guest there as quick as possible, burning a little extra fuel is not an issue, so I will fly low and fast”. My response was “I can fly that trip as a near parabolic (climb followed by immediate descent) at 25,000 feet as quickly or very near so compared to flying at low altitude, and I will arrive within minutes of your time or even maybe faster. Not only that, I will burn considerably less fuel than you”. His response was that he did not believe me (he was no spring chicken - 25,000 hours and several jets in his log book).