Originally Posted by
Smithy02
The reason the Gander operator was 'annoyed' in post 1 is that CPDLC is no longer required. Refer NavCanada AIC 30/15 replicated by UK and Iceland. The GOLD will be revised to include these changes. In addition there is a Gander NOTAM to say they now assign eastbound 30deg W freqs by CPDLC.
The Iceland AIC differs slightly to Canada:
This eliminates the RT requirements for data link equipped aircraft to communicate "Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC)", next Control Area (CTA) / Flight Information Region (FIR), Track and "SELCAL code".
All we need to do now is eliminate HF SELCAL checks, which achieve absolutely nothing.
Why do you say HF SELCAL checks achieve nothing?
Just curious as to what you believe the purpose of such a check to be. I.e to test the equipment or to test the reception ( or both ).