another question for real world pilot: how you contact ATC

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nottobe Captain
Joined: Jan 17, 2005 Posts: 505 Location: KBOS
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 1:02 pm

how do you contact ATC in middle of pacific ocean?

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walesdragon First Officer
Joined: Jan 05, 2008 Posts: 356 Location: Adelaide, South Australia. Come visit me! =D
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 1:59 pm

nottobe wrote:

how do you contact ATC in middle of pacific ocean?

Lol, I have no Idea. D:

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Luke (warlord40) First Officer
Joined: Nov 19, 2007 Posts: 453 Location: Western Australia
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:01 pm

flare? 😂

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walesdragon First Officer
Joined: Jan 05, 2008 Posts: 356 Location: Adelaide, South Australia. Come visit me! =D
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:14 pm

warlord40 wrote:

flare? 😂

Lol!

Walkie-Talkie? 😀

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4112 Location: UK
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:53 pm

Pilots generally monitor a set frequency when over large stretches of water so they can communicate with each other. It often gets abused in the real world.

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Duncan (Razgr1z912) First Officer
Joined: Dec 30, 2006 Posts: 469
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:20 pm

Lets say you just switched over or coming to an island.

You would say

Blabla Center, Callsign with you, FL<Insert crusing here>.

In real time, with a sample I used on vatsim today.

Cleveland Center, SWA7362 with you, FL320.

Its pretty simple and straightforward.

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renesis Trainee
Joined: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 68
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:58 am

http://www.hamuniverse.com/aerofreq.html

HF (High Frequency) is used. Some SATCOMM available soon and possibly to be tied up with a thing called ADS-B.

HF has further range than the domestic VHF. HF is very crackly and sometimes itself impossible to understand due to quality so pilots use a system called SELCAL of selective-call which alrets them each time a message needs to be passed.

SELCAL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selcall

ADS-B: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance-broadcast

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