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While this may have happened to you, I'd say that kind of experience is
exceptional. Sorry it happened to you. no big deal. I learned and no one got hurt and no one had to deviate. In 16 years and 1500+ hours of flying, I've never heard of anyone busted by ATC for a 50 foot altitude deviation (well, I guess now I have). it was not the 50 feet, it was that you basically fly the pattern which is right underneath the approach into SFO. The big iron passes at around 1800 and maybe a mile or two east of the pattern. I was not only 50 feet high but I was also climbing. Remember the transponder encoder shows in hundreds of feet and is not as accurate as the altimeter in the plane. Add it all up and it could have shown me at 150 feet high and still climbing. Regardless, I agree a PC-based flight simulator can save you time and money on IFR training. definitely. It can also more realistically teach you about failures without risking your life. Gerald |
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