While your initial departure and the climb is where you will report leaving an altitude the most, what about when you're at cruise or even up in the
flight levels?
By all accounts, it does not appear that the crew of the A380 did anything wrong, but rather, the ATC crew should have double-checked
flight levels and they did not."
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The Condor Airlines pilot noticed on his systems, another aircraft coming from the opposite direction, on the same
flight level.
Apart from the usual summer buildups, the weather was beautiful at
flight level 240.
The plane had been in level cruising at
flight level 310 (31,000 feet) for about seven minutes when co-pilot Wagner made contact with Shanwick Oceanic Area Control in Ireland, which assigns flight corridors to planes heading across the Atlantic.
Among these are improvements in the management of flights in oceanic airspace, that allow more aircraft to achieve their optimum route and
flight level, helping to cut flying times, fuel burn and emissions; and the use of polar routes, which provide more efficient routing for flights traveling between North America and parts of Asia.
TOPS, which stands for Total OPerations System, integrates data from multiple sources and produces a holistic view of the airline's operation, from the global scale to the individual
flight level, in order to anticipate and notify operations staff of any potential issue and provide solution options.
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IAF radars picked up the aircraft, flying at a
flight level of 37,000 feet, as it entered Indian airspace on an established border entry point on the ATS route.