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On Jul 20, 9:47*am, Stealth Pilot
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:29:00 -0500, Dallas

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:12:45 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

well, we monitor 121.5 on box 2 when we're not using it to get
weather
or
whatever,

Yeah, ok.. that makes sense. *Now I'm ready for that Hawaii trip. *:
- )

in australia we'd be on the local area frequency.

Do't you guys monitor 121.5? I thought that was international.


It is. I've flown through Saudi along the southern border of Iraq. Maybe
about 50 miles from it IIRC. Just along the old southern no-fly zone
between the two wars and all we did was monitor 121.5 and watch our
navigation carefully!
France is one country you have to be particulalry careful to monitor.
They're fairly quick to intercept, or so I've been told since it's never
happened to me or anyone I know directly.


Bertie