jetcareers - View Single Post - Couple of questions for the military pilots

woodreau · June 9th, 2005, 19:07

non-FM immune - in order to fly in Europe (i don't know if you need to have this capability anywhere else.) you need to have an aircraft radio which can tune 8.33kHz frequencies and not "bleedover" and jam other aircraft using the next adjacent frequency.

I think US military aircraft (a state aircraft) are exempt from this requirement so you have to annotate it in the remarks of the flight plan form so that the ATC folks won't assign you to a frequency that you can't tune.

The US hasn't implemented the closer 8.33kHz frequency spacing. We're still using 25kHz frequency spacing - which means there's only 5 frequencies between xxx.000 and xxx.100 (.000 / .025 / .050 / .075 / .100). Over in Europe there are 17 frequencies between xxx.000 and xxx.100 (.000/.005/.010/.015/.025/.030/.035/.040/.050, etc you get the idea)

I can't answer your second question as I'm not a military pilot.

June 9th, 2005, 19:07	#2
woodreau Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 276	Re: Couple of questions for the military pilots non-FM immune - in order to fly in Europe (i don't know if you need to have this capability anywhere else.) you need to have an aircraft radio which can tune 8.33kHz frequencies and not "bleedover" and jam other aircraft using the next adjacent frequency. I think US military aircraft (a state aircraft) are exempt from this requirement so you have to annotate it in the remarks of the flight plan form so that the ATC folks won't assign you to a frequency that you can't tune. The US hasn't implemented the closer 8.33kHz frequency spacing. We're still using 25kHz frequency spacing - which means there's only 5 frequencies between xxx.000 and xxx.100 (.000 / .025 / .050 / .075 / .100). Over in Europe there are 17 frequencies between xxx.000 and xxx.100 (.000/.005/.010/.015/.025/.030/.035/.040/.050, etc you get the idea) I can't answer your second question as I'm not a military pilot.