121.5 the new football hotline?
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121.5 the new football hotline?
What is up with everyone constantly asking for the football results in 121.5? are we not planning to have any emergencies during the world cup? if you must why not use 123.45?
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build abridge. People are really far too precious of 121.5
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Diligent pilots monitor 121.5 to guard against the significant hazards that ‘PLOC’ entails in the modern world. Forgive me being blunt: We don’t want to be put off by 
chatting about bolleaux, whether private pilots practicing their PAN rubbish or ‘professionals’ talking ‘the beautiful game’.
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Well asking about proper football makes a change from being on the Atlantic and baseball/basketball and the NFL...
But have to agree with Father DB, it’s not just sports results that are the problem..
But have to agree with Father DB, it’s not just sports results that are the problem..
Back in the 90s we would often get requests from incoming flights for sporting events via datalink. At the time DLK was quite new and there was some concern about the costs but this was countered by the fact that the pilots would announce the results on board.. giving a personal touch to the flight.
Dont they do this anymore?
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Dont they do this anymore?
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Anilv,
Nowadays, if you miss one line of the PA company guideline you get reported by the fa sitting at the tail. You get a warning letter, he/she gets a promotion.
Nowadays, if you miss one line of the PA company guideline you get reported by the fa sitting at the tail. You get a warning letter, he/she gets a promotion.
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One of my fondest flying memories as a teenager, was flying LHR to SFO with BA the day of the "Botham" test. As the match unfolded to its amazing climax we were regularily updated with match reports from the flight deck, much to the bemusement of the American clientele.
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Back in the 90s we would often get requests from incoming flights for sporting events via datalink. At the time DLK was quite new and there was some concern about the costs but this was countered by the fact that the pilots would announce the results on board.. giving a personal touch to the flight.
Dont they do this anymore?
Anilv
Dont they do this anymore?
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You guys need to get a life. The soccer World Cup is a special, temporary event and lots of people are interested in it. If you have an emergency and announce it, everybody will shut up and you'll be safe. Usually it's the Brits complaining about the misuse of 121.5, but then it is ONLY the British pilots using 121.5 for their "PRACTICE PAN, PRACTICE PAN, PRACTICE PAN"-nonsense. Don't forget to put on your hiviz...
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You guys need to get a life. The soccer World Cup is a special, temporary event and lots of people are interested in it. If you have an emergency and announce it, everybody will shut up and you'll be safe. Usually it's the Brits complaining about the misuse of 121.5, but then it is ONLY the British pilots using 121.5 for their "PRACTICE PAN, PRACTICE PAN, PRACTICE PAN"-nonsense. Don't forget to put on your hiviz...
burbled away blocking out the weak signal that they could not hear; I can assure you that everybody does NOT shut up. The frequency is there for emergency use PERIOD. There are other common frequencies where animal impressions may be welcomed by the 'professional pilots' without hazarding emergencies you cannot hear.
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Having been a controller in 'distress and diversion' where we often had extremely weak signals such as from emergency beacons from an aircraft floating in the Atlantic being reported to us - while some burbled away blocking out the weak signal that they could not hear; I can assure you that everybody does NOT shut up. The frequency is there for emergency use PERIOD. There are other common frequencies where animal impressions may be welcomed by the 'professional pilots' without hazarding emergencies you cannot hear.
burbled away blocking out the weak signal that they could not hear; I can assure you that everybody does NOT shut up. The frequency is there for emergency use PERIOD. There are other common frequencies where animal impressions may be welcomed by the 'professional pilots' without hazarding emergencies you cannot hear.Join Date: Jul 2010
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Dear God, why don’t people just ask to the current ATC unit? Once I got a full resume of the Champion’s League final from a very nice ATCO.
No need to misuse 121.5, not for football result nor for Franco.
No need to misuse 121.5, not for football result nor for Franco.
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In fairness, many fine pilots have been ‘dragged up’ on council estates. Many estimable military pilots of the WW2 era came from what would then have been the ‘working class’.
In my experience: It’s not where you started, but how you handled yourself as you grew older, that mattered.
In my experience: It’s not where you started, but how you handled yourself as you grew older, that mattered.
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People need to grow up IMO.
some of the chatter about results is constant and most of the responses are wrong anyway. It’s distracting to anyone trying to monitor 121.5.
And those Francos- wtf? How can you be so bored? Take a damn book or something.
some of the chatter about results is constant and most of the responses are wrong anyway. It’s distracting to anyone trying to monitor 121.5.
And those Francos- wtf? How can you be so bored? Take a damn book or something.