Flight Levels/Magnetic Track

[MarcelloM]

Hello everyone,
I noticed that many still have not understood the

level of flight
, below I am attaching useful information on the flight level based on the
Magnetic track

Flight level

[Zia]

This is useful for beginners, but isn’t the “thousands plus 500” only for GA/VFR aircraft?

[A_Plane_Guy]

Directly below where you found this information, the article states:

"The UK abolished the quadrantal rule on 2 April 2015 and has adopted the semi-circular rule to align with other countries abroad."

Also, the very first sentence in the (chapter?) states:

"This rule is no longer active."

The UK, along with most countries in the world, use the semi circle rule now: even flight level for westbound flights (heading 180-359), and odd flight level for eastbound flights (heading 000-179).

[MarcelloM]

Exactly,I missed this 👇

Cruising Altitudes

Hey everyone, For this week's tutorial, I thought it might be helpful since we have had a significant increase in traffic on both the Expert and Training servers, to briefly go over cruising altitudes. When filing your FPL (Flight Plan), one of the import factors that must be filed are the cruising altitudes whether you are flying IFR or even VFR. How do you know what altitudes to fly? Well here are some basic guidelines to go by to help remember the altitudes when flying above 3000 ft to …