A/G Radio Operator?
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A/G Radio Operator?
Can anyone tell me what experience, qualifications, training, licence, etc is required to act as a radio operator at a small GA airfield where the only service offered is A/G and not Information?
I know that I should really look it up on LASSORS or the CAA website, but I always find that like trying to swim through treacle, and I guess that many Ppruners on this forum are involved in running small airfields.
Many thanks for any help
I know that I should really look it up on LASSORS or the CAA website, but I always find that like trying to swim through treacle, and I guess that many Ppruners on this forum are involved in running small airfields.
Many thanks for any help
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bose-x Thanks for that. It sounds simpler than I thought.
I have held a PPL(A) + the usual pilot's Flight R/T licence since 1988. So it sounds as if I better get the latest edition of CAP413 & do some revision first!
I have held a PPL(A) + the usual pilot's Flight R/T licence since 1988. So it sounds as if I better get the latest edition of CAP413 & do some revision first!
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CAP452 Aeronautical Radio Station Operator's Guide is the definitive tome (not many pages though! 
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Fill out form SRG1413: Application for the grant of a Radio Station Operator's Certificate of Competence and this should get you the Certificate on the basis of your RT Licence.
)Fill out form SRG1413: Application for the grant of a Radio Station Operator's Certificate of Competence and this should get you the Certificate on the basis of your RT Licence.
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vintage ATCO Many thanks for that. Looks like a good read for a quiet Sunday morning.
We did meet a couple of years ago when you kindly organised a Pprune trip around the new Luton Control Tower. I was the one asking the daft questions!
We did meet a couple of years ago when you kindly organised a Pprune trip around the new Luton Control Tower. I was the one asking the daft questions!
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AerBabe - Thanks very much for the kind offer, but I am unlikely to be in the North Weald area, due to the following:-
I am currently based just north of "the Home of the Hatters".
I am planning a complete escape and life-style change - OK, so I am having a late mid-life crisis
If my estate agents, solicitors & removers finally manage to get thier acts together, I should soon be heading about 235 degrees and 95nm to "the land of Thomas Hardy"
I am hoping to meet a new set of 'flying buddies' & perhaps find some part-time work in GA (for interest rather than remuneration). I would love to work as a Radio Operator, once I have mastered the local flying areas.
I hope to be able to attend the Pprune fly-in at Popham in August, so that I can meet Ppruners, especially any based in the South-West.
I am currently based just north of "the Home of the Hatters".
I am planning a complete escape and life-style change - OK, so I am having a late mid-life crisis
If my estate agents, solicitors & removers finally manage to get thier acts together, I should soon be heading about 235 degrees and 95nm to "the land of Thomas Hardy"
I am hoping to meet a new set of 'flying buddies' & perhaps find some part-time work in GA (for interest rather than remuneration). I would love to work as a Radio Operator, once I have mastered the local flying areas.
I hope to be able to attend the Pprune fly-in at Popham in August, so that I can meet Ppruners, especially any based in the South-West.
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AerBabe - Thanks very much for the kind offer, but I am unlikely to be in the North Weald area, due to the following:-
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From: Old Sarum ish
No man looks good in a pilot's uniform. Most men look good in a flying suit.
Irv - Do you think I would have offered d_b a stint in the tower at NW if I thought she was a he? I wouldn't risk being locked away one-on-one with a male PPRuNer!
Irv - Do you think I would have offered d_b a stint in the tower at NW if I thought she was a he? I wouldn't risk being locked away one-on-one with a male PPRuNer!
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Vintage ATCO, I thought Aerbabe had sat with you at G-VFWE? You mustn't be greedy you know. Nice to meet you at Duxford a couple of weeks ago Aerbabe. I was going to buy you a coffee but I turned my back and you'd gone. At my age that happens all the time!!
I'm up there again next Friday, if you're around.
I thought you liked me in my unifrom, AB 
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Send Clowns - I only ever saw you in your BCFT uniform ... never the navy one. 
Send me a photo! (Inbox now emptied a little).
Ozplane - I'm at Duxford lots next month. I'm sure we'll have the opportunity to catch up soon.
Send me a photo! (Inbox now emptied a little).Ozplane - I'm at Duxford lots next month. I'm sure we'll have the opportunity to catch up soon.
