[Finalapproach29er]

There are bold pilots, and old pilots- but there are no old,bold pilots.

[safisoft]

There are bold pilots, and old pilots- but there are no old,bold pilots.

Like I said before, if they were at the PUBLISHED max alitude for this aircraft, then there was nothing bold about it at all. Every airline pilot I know would have no hesitation at all to go to their max cruise altitude if they could maintain 1.3 gs. That is the concern of most pilots. If their charts showed them good to that altitude, then it was quite natural to go there.

There are a lot of people on this thread who have never seen the inside of a airliner flight deck, and have no idea what they are talking about.