Originally Posted by
Wingnutxj
If your goal is to try and top weather, then stay out of the 200. In the summertime, you usually crap out in the climb somewhere around FL270. I would rather be at 12000 fighting my way through it, then at F300 going slow and wishing I had more power, altitude and airspeed. The only jet that is worth the move for is a 900. And only because of the cities it flies to.
wingnutxj
And yet we on the Saab who have been fighting it out might rather have the option of getting up to FL270 and clearing most of the weather.... I guess it is just a difference of opinion.