Peter wrote:
The 250kt speed limit below 10000ft does not apply in Class A?
The SERA speed limit does not. (See my message #24 above.)
There may be an airspace speed limit, but that can be lifted by ATC.
JasonC wrote:
It was never legal but was done a lot. The rule was clarified and ATC told to stop doing it.
It was legal in Houston – it was NOTAMed for years as an experimental procedure (complete with the phraseology that ATC would use). I was living there at the time and the NOTAM came up in every single DUATS briefing I did :-)
Here’s the text of the NOTAM (sorry it’s an image, it’s only available from scanned paperwork):
alioth wrote:
It was legal in Houston – it was NOTAMed for years as an experimental procedure (complete with the phraseology that ATC would use). I was living there at the time and the NOTAM came up in every single DUATS briefing I did :-)
Fair enough. It was done under a special delegation so was legal. My point was ATC did used to grant high speed a lot in the US until it was pointed out that they are not legally allowed to (at the controller level).
