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Completely agree with the 'depend on circumstances' crowd, although I
have found that the aviation community tends to be split into two personalities - those who prefer to get "as high as practical", and those who tend to enjoy staying lower, enjoying the view (for what its worth, the latter crowd in my experience seems to do more to make sure they stay over easily land-able terrain, whereas the 'get-high' group tends to take more direct routing, so I'm not sure one is particularly more dangerous than the other). Kinda a 'get up, get there' vs 'low, slow, and enjoy the view' dichotomy. I think most of us fall somewhere in between, it the main thing is what do we want to get out of a particular flight. About the only exception i'll say in terms of other 'altitude preference'. When flying heavily congested, open vfr airspace (such as SF bay on a bay tour), I've always been most comfortable flying at '250 and '750 altitudes rather than '000 and '500... The rational is pretty simple - its still trivially easy to track my altitude precisely (the mind responds faster to vertical or horizontial orientations on the altimeter than it does reading particular values), while at the same time, it gets me 'off the beaten path' so to speak. The safety value is marginal, if nill in reality (between sightseeing pilot's not holding altitude and differing altimeter calibrations), but I still do it now out of habit. |
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