Question About Transitions

[Peter_S]

Hey guys. So when I give a plane a transition, and I look at the airspace for the floor and ceiling, how to I know what the transition altitude will be? The rings have different numbers. I have searched for this on the forum but I’ve gotten a lot of different answers.

[Thomas_G]

Hello!

If I were you, I would take a look at the following tutorial. @azeeuwnl explains everything pretty well. I think that is the only official one in the #tutorials category and will help you a lot:

Assigning a Transition Altitude

Much has been written about this, but still I get a lot of questions from trainee ATCs. This topic is about: what transition altitude does the ATC assign to an aircraft. Mark has written a tutorial for pilots, on when, and when not to request a Transition. What we see in Mark’s post, is that you only request a transition, when you are passing through an airport’s airspace. Above 5000 AAL (Above Aerodome Level), don’t contact Tower! For ATC’s to know what altitude to assign to an aircraft wh…

[Brandon_Sandstrom]

Towers airspace in IF is from the surface to 5,000 AGL, and a 5NM radius. When issuing a transition altitude you want to make sure it’s in that range, and no less then 500 feet above area traffic.