Accident report on the midair at Tenino

On 10 Jun 2004 12:17:38 GMT, (Teacherjh)
wrote:

It's pretty straightforward. You call up on an appropriate frequency (they are
listed on the charts and in the AF/D - in a pinch a tower can start you off)
and say something like "Boston Approach, November two four one Romeo Charlie,
twenty five miles northeast of Pawling VOR, level at six point five, request
flight following to Nantucket" If they are busy, they may wait a moment before
answering (if they are really busy just announch your call sign and wait before
you get into the long spiel). When they answer you they will say something
like "two four one Romeo Charlie, squawk 3721". Repeat the code back to them,
put it in the window, they will say "two four one Romeo Charlie, radar contact
thirty miles east northeast of Pawling" and you're in.

Thank you. I at least understand now why I never bothered with the
answers! I can't be heard at 25 miles, and I don't have a transponder.

I fear that flying will go down the same road as boating (if that
isn't a mixed metaphor). There's a very definite set of horn signals
for such tasks as raising a bridge. But starting about ten years ago,
you could circle around in front of the bridge for hours, blowing your
air horn, and nothing would happen. The bridge keepers were inside
their little house, playing cribbage with the radio turned up high.

Once nearly everybody had a radio (transceiver), it became unsafe or
at least terribly inconvenient to go sailing without one.



all the best -- Dan Ford
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