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Old 23rd Mar 2005, 07:29
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rotorspeed
 
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Been a bit late seeing the news of this low flying mil heli hotline but find it hard to see it is going to do any more than enable the MOD to say they've done something about the problem.

It's going to take yet more admin time to use and the info is going to be unreliable. So what's the point? More awareness of potential mil activity maybe but little practical benefit I feel.

To what extent do low level mil acft simply report their positions and routes etc to the appropriate London/Scottish Info VHF frequency? I guess being low level often means two way communication could not be achieved, but surely if regular (blind) position reports were made at least other aircraft operating in the vicinity could pick up this info if listening out and reciprocate with position reports if concerned about potential conflict.

This would take no admin time and provide far more accurate info.
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