Guard 121.5

[densoo]

Anyone have reference for the FAR requirement to monitor. My company removed the domestic requirement from the operating manual and I want to get it put back in.

 

[Baronman]

Anyone have reference for the FAR requirement to monitor. My company removed the domestic requirement from the operating manual and I want to get it put back in.

It wasn't a requirement at my old company. Company policy was to keep the corresponding VHF freq on #2 for dispatch to Selcal us.

 

[ERfly]

It wasn't a requirement at my old company. Company policy was to keep the corresponding VHF freq on #2 for dispatch to Selcal us.

It became a requirement there after SOC with ASA.

At my current company, it used to be one pilot had to monitor it above 18K. Now, the new wAAy is that 121.5 must be monitored any time the #2 radio is not be used for something else (Ops, ATIS, Oceanic Clearance, etc).

Domestically, you're not missing much on Guard. Trust me.

 

[densoo]

It became a requirement there after SOC with ASA.

At my current company, it used to be one pilot had to monitor it above 18K. Now, the new wAAy is that 121.5 must be monitored any time the #2 radio is not be used for something else (Ops, ATIS, Oceanic Clearance, etc).

Domestically, you're not missing much on Guard. Trust me.

I still do it as AA. It would be nice to hear the call on guard to not cross that runway. After 9/11 it was in the manual and a focus item on evals. If I recall the UHF radio in the military had an ATC+Guard position on the wafer switch so you could monitor both on one radio head.

 

[waveflyer]

121.5 is serious business. Believe me, if I catch anyone calling ops, or making a PA on guard, you will know about it!

 

[SpauldingSmails]

121.5 is serious business. Believe me, if I catch anyone calling ops, or making a PA on guard, you will know about it!

Oh, so it's you! I wonder if a guard meltdown has ever daisy chained coast to coast 100-200 miles at a time?

 

[eaglesview]

121.5 is serious business. Believe me, if I catch anyone calling ops, or making a PA on guard, you will know about it!

Gotta love the guard police.

 

[densoo]

I googled this question and a thread on an Airline Pilot Central forum had a pretty good rundown of the issue. Overview: FDC NOTAM says we must monitor it if capable, and FDC NOTAMS are regulatory.

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/major/46132-monitoring-121-50-regulation-policy.html

 

[waveflyer]

Oh, so it's you! I wonder if a guard meltdown has ever daisy chained coast to coast 100-200 miles at a time?

Any troll with 10,000 posts has to be a guard nazi

 

[Dumb Pilot]

In 92 (after I lost my first "last job in aviation") I was ferrying a C172 for a friend of mine from Florida to Dominican Republic when after a fuel stop the oil pressure started dropping..., long story short I wasn't able to reach Miami center (there was a communication blind spot after Staniel Key, or at lest there was back in those days) but I was able to get in touch with a Dominicana airlines FE that was on listening watch in 121.5, they forwarded my location to the coast guard and I was rescued a couple of hours after I had to ditch, so as you can imagine I'm a big advocate for monitoring 121.5.....!

 

[Baronman]

In 92 (after I lost my first "last job in aviation") I was ferrying a C172 for a friend of mine from Florida to Dominican Republic when after a fuel stop the oil pressure started dropping..., long story short I wasn't able to reach Miami center (there was a communication blind spot after Staniel Key, or at lest there was back in those days) but I was able to get in touch with a Dominicana airlines FE that was on listening watch in 121.5, they forwarded my location to the coast guard and I was rescued a couple of hours after I had to ditch, so as you can imagine I'm a big advocate for monitoring 121.5.....!

No kidding...How bad was the crash? Was it hard to get the raft out?

Congrats on surviving!

 

[Dumb Pilot]

No kidding...How bad was the crash? Was it hard to get the raft out?

Congrats on surviving!

Not bad really..., it is amazing how long a 172 will hang in the air with a high angle of attack and the speedometer indicating zero just gliding over the water on ground effect (it is still called ground effect if it is over water? Hum) I opened the doors and windows before hitting the water and placed the raft on the right seat..., the funny thing is that I didn't know those rafts float when they are packed..., so once the A/C got filled with water I took a look at where I had put the raft and it wasn't there.....! It was all the way back in that little space under the back windows...!

I learned something that day...., I just hope I don't get to use that knowledge ever again....LOL

 

[wms]

You also hear towers giving landing clearances on guard when a crew forgets to switch to tower.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

...and barnyard animal noises, occasional music, and yokels who think it's CTAF with their volume cranked all the way down.

 

[EngineThunder]

...and corporate pilots looking for an FBO, or airline pilots telling ramp control their gate info.