Comments on: Flying in the U.K. http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1299 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jesse http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1299&cpage=1#comment-100263 Jesse Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:33:14 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1299#comment-100263 Thanks for this article. I am in the USAF and will be relocating back to the UK (I was there previously). I earned my license while ive been back in the US, and need all the pointers I can get to transitioning to their rules. Is a new British license required?

]]> By: Dan Collins http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1299&cpage=1#comment-96403 Dan Collins Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:42:41 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1299#comment-96403 Another important fact to remember about UK (and European) airspace is that the transition altitude is much lower than in the US and varies depending on location. This means that some Class A airspace has a lower limit defined as a flight level (eg FL035). That’s 3500ft on an ISA standard day.

If you forget this fact on a non-ISA day without setting your altimiter to the standard setting, you could find yourself climbing above the transition altitude and therefore violating Class A airspace.

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