Hi,
I'm a Commercial Jet Pilot, but occasionally buzz about in a PA28 on days off. I am constantly amazed at how poor the signal quality of the military airfields' VHF is. Of course it is great that these guys are prepared to provide a LARS service and allow us GA lot through their MATZ's, I appreciate that they are also on UHF on the same frequency quite often, so perhaps this is why the VHF part of it is so poor. Couldn't they possibly spend a bit more of my tax, and invest in better R/T equipment? Yesterday, for example, I was IMC, and the controller at EG.. aerodrome was totally unreadable. The civil frequencies before and after him were 5/5 so no problem with the aeroplane's radios - We have two fairly new Comm boxes in our Arrow and never have a problem hearing any of the civilian R/T.
Perhaps the military radios are all pre-war? Which begs the question : War? Which war?
One might well ask...
