Originally Posted by
Ilyushin76
Flying around the middle east, I've noticed a few airlines (mostly pilots from India - I do not want to point out airlines but people who fly in this region would know exactly who I am referring to) use the 121.5 to transmit anything from flight plans to communicating with company aircraft
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No concept of having a company frequency for intercompany communication? Just curious.
Although I agree 121.5 should not be used for personal communication, people do have company freq. in India .. not only that.. they also use company 1 up.
121.5 is used to bring people to company one up and for people who are not in same airline and may not know your freq.
But I have seen this happening all over the world .. europe, us Asia.. you name it..
I find it quite amazing how people are so quick to generalize..
Not that I wanna defend Indians for using gaurd freq. but I believe every nationality comes with their own idiosyncrasy.. if you start getting pissed off with each one.. you would be a very pissed off person in life ..
I think you need to take it a bit lightly ..