RFI Survey

[pilotsurvey328]

I am conducting a survey of pilots that have heard Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) on Air Traffic Control frequencies. Examples of RFI could be hearing a radio station, hearing static, hearing other controllers, anything other then the controller that is controlling traffic in that sector. This survey is being conducted for a research project for a college course I am taking. Please email your responses to this survey at [email protected]. Your participation is appreciated, and your inputs will remain confidential.



1. How often do you use Air Traffic services (flight following, IFR, Class C, etc.), answers may be in weeks, months, years: ______________________________



2. How often do you hear radio interference, answer in the same time frame as question #1(weeks, months, years, or never): _______________________________



3. Has interference block transmissions between you and air traffic (if yes, how many times has your communications been blocked?): ________________________________



4. What did the interference sound like (radio station, static, another person, etc) ________________________________________________________________________



5. Did you tell air traffic about the interference? __________



6. If you did not repot interference to ATC in question #5, why didn’t you? ________________________________________________________________________



7. Have you ever complained more than once about the same type of interference in the same geographical area? ____________________

 

[avbug]

I hear it occasionally on a VOR frequency or a localizer frequency.

Seems to be a little more interference the closer to the Mexican border, too.

 

[HMR]

Seems to be a little more interference the closer to the Mexican border, too.

That's the only area I seem to hear it consistently. I don't notice it in Mexico, just right around the border.