airliners air to air unicom frequencies

[barn stormer]

I am not sure if anyone has experienced this before, but today, while up with a student, we came across a conversation on a practice area frequency that our school uses by two different flight crews. Where we fly is fairly remote, so we weren't sure if this was a common practice between commercial airliners from the same company to communicate between each other outside of their dispatchers. I guess it goes to show that you should be careful because you never know just who might be listening....

 

[PCL_128]

What frequency was it? Most crews use 123.45 or 123.47.

 

[barn stormer]

122.75...i know that most airliners or general aviation will use 123.45 as air to air. This particular airline was up in Canada at the time, so things are probably a little different than the lower 48...

 

[chperplt]

We use to talk air to air all the time. If you're not in range of a departure or arrival airport, the number 2 radio is doing nothing and talking helps pass the time by.