tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post6873095257459335427..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: We Know Where We AreAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-69486432662620621052010-05-20T13:59:14.824+00:002010-05-20T13:59:14.824+00:00Well, I don't think 123.45 is official in the ...Well, I don't think 123.45 is official in the US. It's the kind of thing where you may not want to use your callsign. Besides, <a href="http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/06/03/do-you-know-how-to-use-12345/" rel="nofollow">professional pilots don't use 123.45</a><br /><br />Standards vary between countries apparently. The US FAA has decreed 122.75 for "air to air" communication between fixed-wing aircraft.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991660841701835065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-63544206451256176542010-05-20T11:48:03.296+00:002010-05-20T11:48:03.296+00:00Flying over Wood Buffalo National Park? Anywhere ...Flying over Wood Buffalo National Park? Anywhere near the <a href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1282971" rel="nofollow">'World's Longest Beaver Dam'</a>?<br>(additional info at <a href="http://www.geostrategis.com/p_beavers-longestdam.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.geostrategis.com/p_beavers-longestdam.htm</a>.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08089792829849397124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-26091445454594807382010-05-20T04:04:33.957+00:002010-05-20T04:04:33.957+00:00You guys have an official chat line frequency? I ...You guys have an official chat line frequency? I guess that's to make up for not having a frequency for blind position reports.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-44675069101978425672010-05-20T03:33:50.135+00:002010-05-20T03:33:50.135+00:00"They don't know I have a yummy chunk of ..."They don't know I have a yummy chunk of one of their brethren in the freezer compartment of my hotel fridge."<br /><br />I just about died laughing at that line!Geekzillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02228239470545006258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-83029999201218441692010-05-20T03:05:47.984+00:002010-05-20T03:05:47.984+00:00There's a weird tendency pilots have to defer ...<i>There's a weird tendency pilots have to defer to the bigger airplane "you go first...</i><br /><br />Yeah, I don't know if it's so weird. Granted, no freakin little ittle bitty wants wake turbulence behind a jet, but bigger airplanes are faster, too. No one wants to be overtaken on final...<br /><br />And then there's the knowledge of how much money going around costs a big airplane. We're just being nice.<br /><br />I have never bothered with the US chat line, 123.45 but am guilty of using 123.3 for lots of glider-glider talk. Always good to keep track of where people are, either out on course or in the same thermal.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991660841701835065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-89415959457804623782010-05-19T16:58:26.964+00:002010-05-19T16:58:26.964+00:00I do that every time. It's a good thing I know...I do that every time. It's a good thing I know which knob to twirl in the airplane. And that I have you around to set me straight. Fixed.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-19327986676634213792010-05-19T10:53:32.702+00:002010-05-19T10:53:32.702+00:0050 Hz higher, in this case 126.75. Fifty hertz
Th...<i>50 Hz higher, in this case 126.75. Fifty hertz</i><br /><br />That would be 50 kHz and fifty kilohertz.<br /><br />If it was only 50 Hz you'd just hear a change in the tone of their voice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com