Originally Posted by whowhenwhy
However, a Practise Emergency Training Frequency (PETF) for VHF is an excellent idea and would solve a lot of problems. As I've mentioned before though, nothing will happen until the en-route guys and the GA community start putting pressue on the CAA to provide the frequency. Bare in mind as well that the frequency will have to be mated up with the kit in the D&D cells which will require a lot more investment.
Right, so are the en-route guys and the GA community going to put up the cash to pay for the infrastructure? Frequency would be relatively simple (how about the general chat freq 123.45, although DAP consider it to be an assigned frequency its used as chat) but who will bear all the costs of putting in the transmitters and receivers, the bits of wire in between, the ongoing maintenance and fault monitoring?
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