Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
(The usual ‘no radio’ aircraft has a radio but it’s inadvertently tuned to the wrong frequency.)
With the digital control of most radios and all of the electronic flight bags everybody is using, your radio should automatically change to the correct frequency based on your geographical location and altitude.
This is not rocket science and the XCOM radio could do this 18 years ago... this eliminates pilot error from 95% of the circumstances of being in an area on the wrong frequency.