How many monitor 121.5?

The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

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".Blueskies." wrote:

The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long
flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

I do, except when just in the pattern.

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I almost always monitor guard (121.5 MHz) on one of the two transceivers in
our C172 when I'm clear of the DFW Class B. Other than hearing people who
mistakenly talk on guard (and those who respond "xxx, you're on GUARD!", I
primarily hear TRACONs warning people who are about to bust the TFR around
the President, mostly near his place near Crawford, Texas. I don't recall
hearing any of those people respond on guard, but it certainly reminds me to
respect that airspace on the way to Granny's house or to see our daughter in
San Marcos.

I was trained to listen to Guard by the US Army. It came in handy for me
several times in Vietnam when people came to my aid and I was able to return
the favor a couple of times myself. In my opinion, it is always a good
thing to monitor 121.5 so please get yourself into the habit of doing so.

Cheers,
Leonard

".Blueskies." wrote in message
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The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long
flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

I do it whenever I can't think of a better frequency to monitor. I even put
this habit of mine to good use once. Well, kind of.

I was once flying from Boston to New York when I heard some guy trying to
reach his airport's ground service on this frequency, apparently by mistake.
There was no response and the guy was audibly getting frustrated.

"XYZ Ground, Cessna 123AB... XYZ Ground, this is Cessna 123AB... XYZ Ground,
do you copy?" and so on.

So I decided to be a good samaritan. I keyed the mike and said "sir, this is
the emergency frequency." The 123AB guy obviously took the hint as there
were no more frantic calls from him on 121.5.

-- city dweller


".Blueskies." wrote in message
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The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long
flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

".Blueskies." wrote in message The Maydays post got me wondering. I
don't monitor except
during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

Many of today's modern airliners keep a receiver tuned on guard freq.

D.

..Blueskies. wrote:
The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

Flying traffic reporters deep in the FRZ around the DC Beltway, I'm
always on an ATC frequency and monitoring air-to-air on the #2. If I
had a third comm...

".Blueskies." wrote in message


The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the
long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

Every time I fly. It's pretty much de rigeur in/around the DC ADIZ.

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..Blueskies. wrote:
The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...


I listen to 121.5 because I fly in dangerous (DC Area)
airspace. The most I've ever heard other than intercepts
going on is a lost student pilot talking to Flight Service
(they got her a squawk code and approach located her).

The one chilling MAYDAY I did here was on the Gary tower
frequency.

Brad wrote:
.Blueskies. wrote:
The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

Flying traffic reporters deep in the FRZ around the DC Beltway, I'm
always on an ATC frequency and monitoring air-to-air on the #2. If I
had a third comm...

Actually the SL30 (and the GNS480 which uses the same comm section)
can monitor the standby frequency. I can listen to 4 frequencies.
Even when I'm picking up the ATIS or something on #2, I've got 121.5
in the M channel.

..Blueskies. wrote:
The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...



I do not since my Narco MK-12Ds unsquelch that frequency only and I
would have to listen to the noise.

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Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI