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Why don't voice radio communications use FM?
Peter R. writes:
A leading cause of accidents? Where did you get this statistic? From the NTSB and several books on the subject. Guess? If a pilot or controller is not able to comprehend the other side's transmission, there is no guess. "Say again?" is the phrase of choice and it is used all over the frequencies. It's routine in linguistics to unconsciously guess. A person listening to familiar sounds in a familiar context will "fill in the blanks" for any sounds that cannot be unambiguously distinguished, and he will do this without thinking. If he guesses wrong, trouble can result, and accidents have happened in aviation for this reason (the most famous probably being the one at Tenerife). -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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