"John R. Copeland" wrote:

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john smith wrote:

Richard Hertz wrote:
You are filing /G and you don't know the answer to this?
Where do people get their IFR 'training' these days?

That's not necessarily a fair criticism.
For those of us who have been flying since the 70's, we still think and
refer to airspace as TCA's, TRSA's and ARSA's. So we still remember RNAV
as VOR/DME, while LORAN and GPS are essentially global navigation
systems (although, technically, that's still another, different form
altogether).

I;ve been flying since the late 1950s and I adjust. TCA, and ARSAs seem
quite alien to me these days. Then again TRSAs don't because we still have
those.

I think the criticism is quite justified.


Me too, Sammy.
I've been flying since the middle fifties, and I've adjusted pretty well, too.
GPS approaches are a far cry from 4-course Range orientations,
and the Range Approaches that I learned to do without an ADF.
(Follow the edge of a leg into the cone of silence, then turn to xxxº and descend.)
Oooh, those were fun!
And why do I remember 3023.5 kHz? (Except they were kc back then.)
---JRC---

Right, that was before Ms. Hertz took over from Mr. Cycle.

I remember 3023.5, except I can't recall what it was for. Was it a common HF tower
frequency even though most of the equppage was VHF by then? Perhaps you had a VHF
receiver, but only an HF transmitter? From the day I started the aircraft I flew
either had no radios or they had VHF transceivers (perhaps with only a few transmit
crystals and an analog receiver turner.) I remember my first IFR set well, the Narco
Omnigator. Did a lot of ATCS en route communications with that equipment.