Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:18 pm
#1877755
russp wrote:lobstaboy wrote:There needs to be a legal air to air frequency for the chat...
There is .. at least for microlights - https://www.bmaa.org/news/bmaa-news/new ... -frequency.
It's not a 'chat' frequency; it's "for the purpose of improving situational awareness". To be honest I'm not sure what the difference is and where the boundary lies.
Before Safetycom I found the Microlight a/g frequency was very busy with air-to-air chat - I once complained to a couple of chatty pilots about 40 miles away that they weren't leaving me enough time to slot in a downwind call, let alone inform of my arrival. Since then I've taken to squelching out the more distant stuff on these channels.