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Your highest ever altitude?

What was your oxygen saturation at that altitude with only a nasal cannula?

Low-hours pilot
EDVM Hildesheim, Germany

88 %

EDLE

What is the engine? 912ULS?

EGTR

Rotax 914 with 115 HP. A Turbocharger is essential to achieve that altitude and cruise fast with reasonable performance remaining.

EDLE

Wow! IFR or VFR?

ESME, ESMS

VFR

EDLE

Very early in my flying days (mid 80s), with a brand new Swiss PPL but lots and lots to learn, I thought it would be fun to see if I could fly over the top of Mt Blanc one summer evening. I was solo in a clapped out two seat club Robin DR20 from Bex aerodrome in the Rhone valley. This old thing normally wouldnt get above 10,000ft, but with a north wind using the rising air up the north face of the mountain I coaxed it all the way to 16,500 ft over the top of the peak, waved at the mountaineers at sunset and headed for home. In retrospect I realised that I had broken so many rules that I should have lost my licence for life – crossing national boundary without FPL, flying into prohibited nature zone, flying without oxygen above 12,000 ft etc etc. Foolishness of youth… I was 46 at the time. I have calmed down considerably since then.

Upper Harford private strip UK, near EGBJ, United Kingdom

As PIC, I think the highest I’ve flown to is Tignes, 7,920 ft.

Glenswinton, SW Scotland, United Kingdom

Jacko wrote:

As PIC, I think the highest I’ve flown to is Tignes, 7,920 ft.

You did a circuit there so add +1000ft

Paris/Essex, France/UK, United Kingdom

2k to reach the ceiling

LPFR, Poland
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