Tailwinds Flying Club Fall Safety Session - 2009

1. Communication On the ground and in the air Tailwinds Flying Club Fall Safety Session - 2009

2. Communication Why the fuss, we all know how to use the radio? WASHINGTON - The pilot of a plane involved in a mid-air collision over New York's Hudson River read back the wrong radio frequency to an air traffic controller but was not corrected by the controller, a U.S. government safety official said Wednesday. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman told a congressional committee Wednesday that shortly after the single-engine Piper took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, a Teterboro controller handed off the plane to nearby Newark Liberty International. During the handoff, the controller instructed the Piper pilot to contact Newark and gave him the radio frequency. However, air traffic control recordings show the frequency the pilot read back was incorrect, Hersman said. There is no indication that any controller heard the incorrect readback or attempted to correct it, she said.

3. Good to Know Local VFR Pilot Frequencies Communication 21D – Lake Elmo Airport Unicom – CTAF – AWOS – Flight Service Station (Princeton) FSS – Flight Watch – VFR Flight Following MPS Center - 122.8 122.8 120.075 122.2 122.0 120.3 & 125.5

4. CTAF, MULTICOM, and UNICOM Communication UNICOM - Aeronautical Advisory Station A nongovernment communications facility which may provide airport information at certain airports. MULTICOM Frequency used at airports without a tower, FSS, or UNICOM. CTAF – Common Traffic Advisory Frequency A frequency designed for the purpose of carrying out airport advisory practices while operating to or from an uncontrolled airport. The CTAF may be a UNICOM, MULTICOM, FSS, or tower frequency and it is identified in appropriate aeronautical publications.

5. Good to Know Local IFR Pilot Frequencies Communication ATC (MSP) Center – Approach Control - Departure – Clearance Delivery - VOR Receiver Checkpoint (VOT) STP - 120.3 & 125.5 NW – 126.5 NE – 121.2 S – 134.7 120.075 118.625 114.4

6. Know When to Call Communication In an emergency, too many general aviation pilots refuse to communicate. As a result, they cannot marshal resources available to them, too often with ugly consequences. Bluntly, they shut up and die. - Rick Durden – Aviation Safety Magazine – January 2009

7. What is the emergency frequency? Communication 121.5

8. What are the only two frequencies specified in the Aeronautical Information Manual for use in Air-to-Air (pilot-to-pilot) communications? Communication 122.75 & 123.025

9. Common Frequencies Communication 108.000 - 112.000 MHz Aviation Terminal VOR and ILS Navigation 112.000 - 117.950 MHz Aviation VOR Navigation 118.000 - 136.000 MHz Aviation Communication 121.500 MHz Aviation Distress 121.600 MHz Civil Air Patrol (Authorized use only) 118.000 - 121.400 MHz Air Traffic Control (Towers and ARTCC's) 121.650 MHz Aviation Ground Control 121.700 MHz Aviation Ground Control 121.750 MHz Aviation Ground Control 121.800 MHz Aviation Ground Control 121.850 MHz Aviation Ground Control 121.900 MHz Aviation Ground Control 122.025 - 122.675 MHz Flight Service Stations 122.000 MHz Flight Advisory Service 122.250 MHz Balloons 122.700 MHz Aviation UNICOM Uncontrolled Airports 122.725 MHz Aviation UNICOM Private Airports 122.800 MHz Aviation UNICOM Uncontrolled Airports 122.900 MHz Aviation UNICOM Uncontrolled Airports and Search and Rescue Training 122.950 MHz Aviation UNICOM Controlled Airports 122.975 MHz Aviation UNICOM 122.750 MHz Aviation Air to Air Communications 122.775 MHz Air Shows & Air-to-air Communications 122.925 MHz Aviation UNICOM/Multicom/Air Shows 122.975 MHz Airplane to Airplane (high altitude airliners) 123.025 MHz Helicopters Air-to-air Communications 123.325 MHz Air Shows 123.425 MHz Air Shows 123.100 MHz Search and Rescue/Civil Air Patrol 123.350 MHz NASA 123.600 - 128.800 MHz Air Traffic Control (Towers/ARTCC's) 135.850 MHz Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 135.950 MHz Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

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