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Lagoon

10-05-2017 09:05 PM

VFR on top during IFR?

When flying VFR on top on an IFR flight plan, below 18,000 MSL, does ATC instruct the pilot to maintain VFR cruising altitudes (i.e. +500 ft) and does the PIC have the discretion to change altitudes without informing ATC?

Twin Wasp

10-06-2017 07:38 AM

See 4-4-8 in the AIM.

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