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Old 4th Nov 2005, 10:02
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threemiles
 
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Well lets all hope the system is modern! There are a couple of waypoints off the northern coast of Spain where the Spanish regularly forget to handover crews to the French, resulting in the Spanish calling an aircraft thats out of VHF range and the French trying to contact it on 121.5. It became so frequent that I always made a point of calling the Spanish for a "radio check" every time I approached these waypoints to remind them to hand me over.
When out of VHF range you are for sure out of radar range, too. Then a sophisticated ATC system is not of much help.
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