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Old 3rd Jan 2006, 19:44
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Re: Rockets fired at aircraft

Originally Posted by tired
Thanks FE, that's good gen, espeically the last paragraph. Have I read it correctly - if we transmit something on the LHR tower frequency, then you guys will hear it on one of your sets, so will know about, and possibly be reacting to, an incident even before ATC phones? That's a very useful piece of info that I didn't know.
Only if the radio is turned on. If we go airside (even on the back roads) we have them switched on to whatever channel covers that part of the airfield. North has it's own channel to South. We would then switch all else off apart from our personal radios.


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