Thread: Monitoring Guard.

Quote: Originally Posted by A-300F4-622R I'm sure you know this Boris, but for the newbie freight pilot.... the faster you go, the faster you get through it! NOW I know. Too little too late! You owe me a pair of skivvies.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bandit_Driver When I was a CFI I taught my students to monitor guard when outside the local area. When in the local area we wanted them on the FBO freq so we could get a hold of them if needed. I've found it is much, much easier to monitor 2 frequency's in a G1000 equipped airplane. After trying to monitor 2 this past weekend, with one on a GNS430, and one on an old beat-up King Radio, I'll say that...

Quote: Originally Posted by KSCessnaDriver I've picked up ELT's as low as 3,000 AGL. Heck, in the last 100 hours or so that I've been trying to focus on mointoring 121.5, I've probably picked up 5 or 6 ELT's. Today, approach had another plane tune, and they heard it too, so I know I'm not crazy. And, at least on the G1000 equipment I've been flying, its so easy to have both frequency's up, that there is...

Quote: Originally Posted by N519AT Must be the luck of the draw I suppose. Now, when I've ridden along in a King Air 350 that's based where I work, we did get quite a bit of activity but no ELTs. More along the lines of: On Guard "XYZ Ops, Company 576 in range no specials" "YEERRRRRRRRRRRR ON GUARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD" The best is when someone is transmitting on guard something like this: "MAYDAY MAYDAY...

Quote: Originally Posted by Boris Badenov Heh. When I was a freight puppy I got myself in to an area of embedded level 3s and 4s and lost contact with center . Couldn't read the charts for a frequency because of the turbulence, just managed to dial in 121.5, called up sounding scared I'm sure (cause I was), asked for a frequency and instantly got a YER ON GUARD from some jerk at FL350 over the weather. I had my finger on the trigger...

Quote: Originally Posted by ///AMG I know, I was just kidding...I'm just referring to all the guard calls that your base likes to make when there are sigmets or whatever else of note in the area. yeah tower and rapcon really like the "attention all 14 FTW aircraft" calls on guard

Let's just say it's also a good way for someone to get in touch with you when you can't hear ATC on the assigned freq (especially if you're approaching restricted airspace); going NORDO can turn into a big deal these days

Whenever I can. Which is almost always. I want the 2nd radio live but quiet. If you have it tuned to say 22.8, and listen to unicom or something else, you have a tendency to turn it down. Swap radios with a freq that you need, and forget to turn it back up, where you at? Once in a while you hear something interesting, mostly you hear the "guard police". Besides, it is company policy. Also, one time I tuned the radio I was using for a...

All day every day... I am however squeezed between P-40 & the DC SFRA though.

Yep. Always do....and no, I'm not the 121.5 police if you mistakenly call the company on that frequency.