Thanks Genghis.
Could you or anyone else help with a couple more details please?
Background:
We plan to try our experimental aircraft out in the US first, dropping it from a carrier plane at 20,000ft. It'll remain visible from the airfield throughout the flight test. We'd like a 2-way radio on board so that the pilot can maintain voice contact with the carrier plane and the airfield. (No need for radio telemetry - that'll be logged internally). I am presuming that fitting a standard VHF air band transceiver to the test craft would be permissible.
Question:
Assuming there are no objections to us fitting said VHF transceiver to the test craft and using it as described, is it the case that the UK requires all air band radio operators to be licenced (eg. via PPL), while the US does not require any radio licences for this band?
Many thanks,
MM.
PS. I'll take a look around Flight Test forum, but is TechLog still the best forum for this particular discussion?
