RST Engineering wrote:
That's also the frequency for my facility and we have sued (and won) where
engineering time, aircraft time, and technician time were trashed by some
yoyo yakking to wingman charlie about the restaurant they were headed to.

123.4 and 123.45 are assigned to aviation manufacturers strictly for testing
aircraft and aircraft components.


I've taken up the cause to get the FAA to remove the erroneous
inclusion of 122.85 as an air-to-air frequency in the AIM. As you
pointed out to me several years ago, it is not and hasn't ever been a
legal air-to-air freq. except in special locations like the Grand
Canyon.

I got going on this when a firefighting outfit was using 122.85
(licensed and legal, air-to ground) to conduct forest fire Ops last
year. They were pleading on the frequency for everyone to shut up so
they could talk to their tankers and lead planes. Most pilots ignored
them and some even told the ground station that 122.85 was fair game,
per the AIM.

I've spent the last 6 months corresponding with the guy in charge of
AIM corrections in D.C. At first he gave me a bunch of erroneous
reasons why 122.85 is a valid air-to-air freq., but I've been shooting
them down one by one with the help of the FCC regs and a guy over at
the FCC.

It might be a futile cause, since the error has spread into "common
knowledge", but after what I heard last year, I thought it would be
worth a shot.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)