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How many monitor 121.5?
The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...
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How many monitor 121.5?
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".Blueskies." wrote: The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... I do, except when just in the pattern. -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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How many monitor 121.5?
I almost always monitor guard (121.5 MHz) on one of the two transceivers in
our C172 when I'm clear of the DFW Class B. Other than hearing people who mistakenly talk on guard (and those who respond "xxx, you're on GUARD!", I primarily hear TRACONs warning people who are about to bust the TFR around the President, mostly near his place near Crawford, Texas. I don't recall hearing any of those people respond on guard, but it certainly reminds me to respect that airspace on the way to Granny's house or to see our daughter in San Marcos. I was trained to listen to Guard by the US Army. It came in handy for me several times in Vietnam when people came to my aid and I was able to return the favor a couple of times myself. In my opinion, it is always a good thing to monitor 121.5 so please get yourself into the habit of doing so. Cheers, Leonard ".Blueskies." wrote in message .. . The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... |
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How many monitor 121.5?
I do it whenever I can't think of a better frequency to monitor. I even put
this habit of mine to good use once. Well, kind of. I was once flying from Boston to New York when I heard some guy trying to reach his airport's ground service on this frequency, apparently by mistake. There was no response and the guy was audibly getting frustrated. "XYZ Ground, Cessna 123AB... XYZ Ground, this is Cessna 123AB... XYZ Ground, do you copy?" and so on. So I decided to be a good samaritan. I keyed the mike and said "sir, this is the emergency frequency." The 123AB guy obviously took the hint as there were no more frantic calls from him on 121.5. -- city dweller ".Blueskies." wrote in message .. . The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... |
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How many monitor 121.5?
".Blueskies." wrote in message The Maydays post got me wondering. I
don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... Many of today's modern airliners keep a receiver tuned on guard freq. D. |
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How many monitor 121.5?
..Blueskies. wrote: The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... Flying traffic reporters deep in the FRZ around the DC Beltway, I'm always on an ATC frequency and monitoring air-to-air on the #2. If I had a third comm... |
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How many monitor 121.5?
Brad wrote:
.Blueskies. wrote: The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... Flying traffic reporters deep in the FRZ around the DC Beltway, I'm always on an ATC frequency and monitoring air-to-air on the #2. If I had a third comm... Actually the SL30 (and the GNS480 which uses the same comm section) can monitor the standby frequency. I can listen to 4 frequencies. Even when I'm picking up the ATIS or something on #2, I've got 121.5 in the M channel. |
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How many monitor 121.5?
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Ron Natalie wrote: Brad wrote: .Blueskies. wrote: The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... Flying traffic reporters deep in the FRZ around the DC Beltway, I'm always on an ATC frequency and monitoring air-to-air on the #2. If I had a third comm... Actually the SL30 (and the GNS480 which uses the same comm section) can monitor the standby frequency. I can listen to 4 frequencies. Even when I'm picking up the ATIS or something on #2, I've got 121.5 in the M channel. It's mind boggling that it took avionics companies so long to add this feature to their products. Dual watch was a standard feature in marine VHF radios 15 or 20 years ago. I used to have an ICOM marine handheld that had tri-watch. You could monitor two random channels, *plus* channel 16 (the marine version of 121.5). |
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How many monitor 121.5?
".Blueskies." wrote in message
The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... Every time I fly. It's pretty much de rigeur in/around the DC ADIZ. -- John T http://sage1solutions.com/bogs/TknoFlyer Reduce spam. Use Sender Policy Framework: http://openspf.org ____________________ |
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How many monitor 121.5?
..Blueskies. wrote:
The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer... I listen to 121.5 because I fly in dangerous (DC Area) airspace. The most I've ever heard other than intercepts going on is a lost student pilot talking to Flight Service (they got her a squawk code and approach located her). The one chilling MAYDAY I did here was on the Gary tower frequency. |
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