Forced to report @ 270

[StarChk20]

Flying the other day, descending to FL270. Out of FL280 the controller says ATC: "report level at FL270".
Us: "Roger"
ATC: "I need you to report level at FL270"
Us: "We're out of FL276 now and will report level at 270"
ATC: "I need you to report level at FL270 now"
Us at FL274: "ok we are level at FL270"


She needed us to report level at FL270 right away even though we weren't there. Anybody else have this happen/know why it happened?

 

[flatspin7]

It could have been a couple of things... either the controller lost your mode-c temporarily and couldnt see your alt read-out. Or maybe she was desceding someone in reference to you and needed to hear the words. Or she may have had a supervisor standing over he shoulder questioning everything.

 

[twepilot]

so you reported at an altitude that you weren't really at just because she wanted you to say you were level at that altitude??

RV

 

[unreal]

Maybe she was about to have a deal and wanted to somehow cover her ass on the tapes. I hear you can get mucho busted for that though, like, loss of job busted.

 

[circletoland]

Reporting take precidence over the mode C so that is a way to buy some altitude for the ATCer.

If the controler enters on the computer a hard altitude It will show you level at that altitude when the AC is with in 300', if your using Interim altitudes it will not give you the 300'.

 

[Seadogrun]

so you reported at an altitude that you weren't really at just because she wanted you to say you were level at that altitude??

RV

Is this what happened?

 

[cjdriver]

Had you been given an altitude restriction and you were about to miss it? Maybe she was trying to save your a$$.

 

[IHateDaley]

Sounds like she was about to have a deal.

 

[StarChk20]

No cross to make, just a very urgent controller that needed to hear 270. Don't think we were exceeding the rate of decent for mode c either, I think we were only doing about 2000fpm as we were in the process of leveling off. It was about 273/274 that we reported level at 270 since we were in the process of leveling. She just wouldn't let it go until she heard "Level at 270"

 

[SpiderMan]

Maybe she was about to have a deal and wanted to somehow cover her ass on the tapes. I hear you can get mucho busted for that though, like, loss of job busted.

Well if that is the case and it sounds like it, I would report 700 feet high for the hell of it. Nothing like abusing your authority to cover your ass.