Wow - heard on the air... (long)

Doug wrote:
One thing a LOT of pilots don't do right. When you call fligh****ch,
you should give your position on your initial callup. This is because
although it's all the same frequency, there are different transmitters.
If you don't give your position, he has to reply on ALL the
transmitters he has becuase he doesn't know WHERE YOU ARE!

I hear this mistake time and time again.

Have you been to a flight circus station in the last decade?
They know where you are because their console twinkles all the
receivers you hit.

And the Flight Service Specialist has to GUESS what transmitter to use
if there is more than one "twinkle" they have to choose from. The
correctr phraseology, so I've been taught, is: "McMinnville Radio,
Cessna 12345 on 122.45 out of Newberg." OR "McMinnville Radio, Cessna
12345 on 122.6 out of Salem." Remember that they may also have multiple
transmitters on 122.45 or 122.6 that they control, so the location is
just as important. Btw, Flight Watch is NOT Flight Service. Around
Salem, Oregon, Flight watch goes to Seattle Flight Watch, not
McMinnville, where Oregon's AFSS is located (for now).

Chris


Ron Natalie wrote:
Doug wrote:

One thing a LOT of pilots don't do right. When you call fligh****ch,
you should give your position on your initial callup. This is because
although it's all the same frequency, there are different transmitters.
If you don't give your position, he has to reply on ALL the
transmitters he has becuase he doesn't know WHERE YOU ARE!

I hear this mistake time and time again.

Have you been to a flight circus station in the last decade?
They know where you are because their console twinkles all the
receivers you hit.