Online radio primer?

Not an "online" source, but center freqs are listed toward the back of the
FAA's Airport/Facility Directory.

Receiving a FSS/HIWAS/TWEB/ASOS/AWOS via a VOR is explained in the sectional
chart legend (Radio Aids to Navigation and Communication Boxes).

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JL

"Roger Long" om wrote in
message ...
I'm about to make my first cross country outside of our comfortable New
England airspace where flight following is pretty much automatic and you
just keep tuning in the next frequency they give you.

I'm not sure if things will be the same out in the wilds of western New
York
and Ohio. Can anyone point me to an online source where I can brush up on
the things I learned and forgot a few years ago, how to receive on a VOR,
how to raise center out in the boonies, etc?

--
Roger Long

"Jeff Lindorff" writes:

Receiving a FSS/HIWAS/TWEB/ASOS/AWOS via a VOR is explained in the
sectional chart legend (Radio Aids to Navigation and Communication
Boxes).

It's funny what you don't think of checking before leaving home. Up
here, I can always call the nearest FSS and hear them on 126.7
(actually, an FIC will usually handle the calls now, but it works out
the same for pilots).

On my first and only trip (so far) down to the U.S., I ended up
calling local FSS's on local frequencies, since that was the easiest
thing to figure out. On my way home the next day, VFR, after midnight
over upstate NY, I was too far away to get any local FSS. I saw the
VOR/FSS thing in the A&FD, but I was too busy flying to figure it out
properly from the cryptic notes (it looked to me like I was supposed
to *transmit* on the VOR frequency). Thanks for the explanation.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, , http://www.megginson.com/