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231 One Mistake Too Many: Fatal Pilatus PC-12 Crash + GA News

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Altitude Your Discipline

Most of the time, when the controller says v f r, altitude, your discretion, you can pick any altitude. But if you're in a busy metro area, either nearer class b or class c airport, the controller might say something like, maintain v f r. In that case there is so much traffic around you that they want you to ask for permission before you change altitude. The farther away i get from the bravo, the more likely it is that i don't mention altitude changes. So i'm sure they don't want to hear from me as i'm stepping down to stay under the bravo shelf and head back to my home airport.

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