It’s easy to say FL22 is the way to go, until you run a landing data request through ACARS with FL22 and RC5 and all of a sudden you need a 7800 foot piece of pavement to land on. Wind credit you say? Yeah, that never makes up the 3000 foot difference between FL45 and FL22. I believe this was by design.

Not only is it a cultural push to be a FL45 company at PDT, management is forcing our hand with the new RC code implementation.