Air-to-air communication and the FCC/FAA

In case of team flying, the intent of air-to-air communication should be voice only. Please do not promote any more "eyes to the panel" electronics; there are two many already.

Best case would provide a private voice frequency for each team. Therefore, the most case scenario would be total entries divided by two. For a big regional or a national contest a reasonable number would be 35 frequencies. An international contest would require more.

Again, no more "eyes to the panel" electronics please.

Ben

On Apr 4, 12:22*pm, wrote:
In case of team flying, the intent of air-to-air communication should be *voice only. Please do not promote any more "eyes to the panel" electronics; there are two many already.

Best case would provide a private voice frequency for each team. Therefore, the most case scenario would be total entries divided by two. For a big regional or a national contest a reasonable number would be 35 frequencies. An international contest would require more.

Again, no more "eyes to the panel" electronics please.

Ben

123.5 and 122.75 are fully legal. What others can be used varies from
location to location.

My hope is that for smaller contests 123.5 can emerge as a general
chat frequency.

Two-pilot "pair" flying is very difficult, and not that productive
until you get a lot of practice. I hope that p-p communication will
evolve to larger groups and more informal communication and mentoring,
where a common chat frequency would work.

FM walkie talkies are cheap and work in the air. Pairs who want to
talk all the time might try those, so they can monitor contest
frequencies and also not drain their batteries.

John Cochrane