The place where you fly and the kind of flying you do defines your personal altitude record. My personal best is 13.500 feet in a DA40 TDI. In non turbo aircraft it is 12.500 flying in the Alps.
For this month poll, let me know what is the maximum altitude you did reach in a light aircraft so far. Where was that, and had you oxygen ? Let’s see who will get the record.
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Vincent Lambercy is a Swiss private pilot now living in Germany. He holds a private pilot certificate with single-engine, multi-engine and instrument ratings and has logged more than 430 hours of flight.
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14000 ft in a Piper Aztec. http://web.elastic.org/~fche/blog2/archive/2006/03/05/high_as_a_kite
FL140+ (MIL OFF) on a Robin (or maybe the very same DA40 as Vincent, can’t remember). Light hypoxia symptoms (dizzyness) after a few minutes (I’m a smoker, suits me well! :-/ ).
10,500ft in a Cessna TU206 flying from the Los Angeles area back to KLVK. Went above some weather rather than scud running at 6.5.
I did 21,000 feet in a Cirrus SR22 Turbo with Oxygen but only as part of my type training and once we got there we did an emergency descent for practice. In normal operations, FL140 with Oxygen in a regular SR22.