Great video, beautiful views. Any idea why they have so much trouble with your call sign and have you experienced the same in Canada but away from your home area?
To be fair, when I worked for Nav Canada, I would have almost as much trouble with “N bunch of numbers” calling us. I didn’t expect it close to the border, but haven’t experienced it too bad north of the border away from home
@@HowIFly Now that we are on the topic, at 1:25 you abbreviate your call sign to ZVD. Here, in Europe, it would be considered non-standard to reply with an abbreviated call sign when the full callsign (CGZVD) was used by Ground. Was that to 'help'/'nudge' the controller, or is it the usual way to do it in Canada and/or US? Edit/clarification: It was an appropriate response in this situation; no need to make the controllers day any harder just for the sake of. It just made me curious - that's all.
@@Rodhern Good question! In Canada, a Canadian registered aircraft on initial call would only use the 4 letter callsign (GZVD) and drop the C...after initial callup, it is acceptable to drop the G...so ZVD (assuming there will be no likelihood of confusion. I'm fairly sure the Americans do something similar, but it was likely just "muscle memory" that made me abbreviate!
Haven’t been that high before…on this trip the highest was 9500. The plane would perform just fine at 15000, but we would require oxygen if above 10000 for any longer than 10000 feet.
Very smooth landing!
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Great video, beautiful views.
Any idea why they have so much trouble with your call sign and have you experienced the same in Canada but away from your home area?
To be fair, when I worked for Nav Canada, I would have almost as much trouble with “N bunch of numbers” calling us. I didn’t expect it close to the border, but haven’t experienced it too bad north of the border away from home
@@HowIFly Now that we are on the topic, at 1:25 you abbreviate your call sign to ZVD. Here, in Europe, it would be considered non-standard to reply with an abbreviated call sign when the full callsign (CGZVD) was used by Ground.
Was that to 'help'/'nudge' the controller, or is it the usual way to do it in Canada and/or US?
Edit/clarification: It was an appropriate response in this situation; no need to make the controllers day any harder just for the sake of. It just made me curious - that's all.
@@Rodhern Good question! In Canada, a Canadian registered aircraft on initial call would only use the 4 letter callsign (GZVD) and drop the C...after initial callup, it is acceptable to drop the G...so ZVD (assuming there will be no likelihood of confusion. I'm fairly sure the Americans do something similar, but it was likely just "muscle memory" that made me abbreviate!
any problems or concerns (altitude sickness, engine performance) flying at 15,000 feet?
Haven’t been that high before…on this trip the highest was 9500. The plane would perform just fine at 15000, but we would require oxygen if above 10000 for any longer than 10000 feet.
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