Originally Posted by
rans6andrew
I can't help thinking that a chat frequency would be a real safety benefit especially when flying as a loose formation. Several times I would like to have been allowed to warn others in my vicinity of "chinook at 11 O'clock climbing towards" or "gliders circling ahead" or even "kinnell, that was close, where is the other one" (fast jets always fly in pairs!) but it seems that we shouldn't.
Ho hum.
Umm, isn't that why we get an ATC service ?