Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Isn’t 126.7 the ‘area frequency’ below 5,000’ in Canada?
Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
No. Thank heavens! No other country as ever heard of 5000’ as a demarcation line.
In both Canada and the USA there is no radio requirement for VFR en route in G or E. And there is about 30 times the amount of traffic .
Dick you're correct that there is no radio requirement for enroute VFR in Class E and G airspace in the US, nor even a designated enroute frequency. Also correct that there's no demarcation altitude in US or Canada. Technically, you are correct that there is no radio requirement for VFR enroute in Canada, also. It's a "recommendation" in the AIP, which technically lacks the force of law. However, in my experience flying in Canada's Northern Domestic Airspace, VFR traffic *does* as a rule, report position and intentions on 126.7. You will hear helicopters, floatplanes etc, making position reports on the enroute frequency. Are there other VFR aircraft not reporting? That's hard to say based on observation, certainly there may be, but my impression from having flown there is that the VFR traffic does for the most part comply with the system, just like the IFR traffic.