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Old 6th August 2008 | 13:43
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gasax
 
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The bigger picture is that a very large number but probably not the majority of 'aircraft' do not have radios installed.

My old aircraft did not - and obviously that colours ones perception. Flying from a licensed field in club aircraft - surely everyone has a radio? Well nearly.

Without a radio the OHJ works, well it has for 80 year odd. IF you can invent something as reliable that does not depend upon a radio great, I'm all for it.

I'm sure many of the 'issues' with the OHJ are around people's unfamiliarity with it - due to ATC controlled fields and radio and not having the freedom / responsibility to do it themselves.

You see this to some extent in the number of fields that are beginning to restrict non-radio traffic. But at the majority of strips - where these days there are more light aircraft based than at licensed fields you can have a dedicated frequency, Safetycom, microlight or gliding requencies in use. Not surprisingly the OHJ is about the only near universal procedure.
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