Matt Barrow wrote:

I agree with you that and hold that anything over 18,000 feet is strictly a
IFR operation and conducted in 1000 foot increments (also that if someone is
at a 500 foot intermediate level they are only passing through that
altitude, not cruising.

Ok, then please 'splain my glider operations?

NO IFR pilot on board, glider not IFR certified, no transponder,
VFR pilot on board, unable to hold altitude.

I assert this is a legal operation... VFR, above FL180.


Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocation!" Eberhard

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