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September 17th 06, 06:21 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring,rec.aviation.piloting
Robert M. Gary
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Finding CTAF & PCL freq in a Garmin
Make sure your database is current. I pulled up a CTAF on my 296 last
week and found the freq different than the section. Turns out the freq
had changed in the few months.
-Robert
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I thought I was frustrated by Garmin not clearly indicating CTAF's in
their database, but found out that the frustration was due to my not
knowing where to look. While maybe no one else will suffer from this
problem, I'll take the risk of exposing my error in case someone else
may benefit.
On my Garmin 196, the CTAF is not listed on the Comm tab that goes with
the airport. This normally isn't a problem since usually the CTAF can
be inferred from other frequencies listed on the Communication tab, but
for some airports (KTVL and O57 are the ones that bugged me), there was
confusion and I wished Garmin had marked the CTAF with a C or similar.
Some research made me realize that I was looking in a logical, but
wrong place. The CTAF is on the main page for the airport, not on the
Comm tab.
A related problem that also could be catastrophic in an emergency is
looking for the PCL frequency on the COMM tab. It's on the RUNWAY tab
-- and for some airports like O57 it is not the same as the CTAF. I
don't know why the FAA allows different frequencies for CTAF and PCL,
but that is the case.
Hoping this is of some help.
Robert M. Gary
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