Sat Jan 18, 2003 3:05 pm
#5604
Being a good boy I trawled through the NOTAMs this morning and found (obligatory NOTAM whinge - amongst all the irrelevant stuff about airfields much further than 25nm away from EGLD) the following:
OTH : FROM 03/01/17 15:17 TO PERM B0148/03
E)FREQ 123.45MHZ NOT TO BE USED AS AN AIR TO AIR COMM CHANNEL WITHIN
RANGE OF ANY VHF GROUND STATION IN UK FIRS
Not that I have ever fealt the need to use it myself, but I wonder what has prompted them to put this in now? Interesting wording too - I suspect you would be hard pushed to find somewhere in the UK FIRs not in range of a VHF groundstation!
Ali
OTH : FROM 03/01/17 15:17 TO PERM B0148/03
E)FREQ 123.45MHZ NOT TO BE USED AS AN AIR TO AIR COMM CHANNEL WITHIN
RANGE OF ANY VHF GROUND STATION IN UK FIRS
Not that I have ever fealt the need to use it myself, but I wonder what has prompted them to put this in now? Interesting wording too - I suspect you would be hard pushed to find somewhere in the UK FIRs not in range of a VHF groundstation!
Ali