Originally Posted by
sandlapper223
Reading the new report here from CNN.....I know take it with a grain. So now the reports indicate the flight climbed to FL450, descended to FL230, then up to FL300 (or something like that).
Just out of curiosity, for those that fly the 777, what is the max altitude that can be pre-selected on the FCP ALT window (I.e. If someone were to just "spin it up"?
Soon after that 737 and Embraer Legacy collided over Brazil, the Brazilian authorities accused the US Crew of doing acrobatic maneuvers because their altitude was all over the place on the military radar. Later it came out that the military radar just isn't that good at resolving altitude at the extremes of it's range.
I suspect something similar here.