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Old 29th Oct 2003, 15:04
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Good to hear that the new airspace is going to reduce the already high workload for VFR pilots and let them now concentrate more on effective scanning techniques, which as we all know is THE most effective way of traffic mangement and seperation.

Radios are a thing of the past. In fact it's amazing that radios and their use in aviation became so wide spread considering that you don't need them at all to sperate yourself from anyone else that might be sharing your airspace.

And as we know, everyone keeps a listening watch on 121.5 so if the need does arise to dust the cobwebs off the ole set and talk to someone who looked like they filled the windscreen a little we can use this frequency and ask them if they were using an effective scan rate. (obviously they wouldn't of been)

As mentioned already, reducing radio induced ear numbing is another great side effect meaning that all of these over stressed, high workload VFR pilots when having to talk on the MBZ or such can do so without ear or voice fatigue, once again improving their ability to scan the horizon.

Good one
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