Bass Strait plane missing 02/08/25

[facthunter]

Do an all stations comm check call..  Nev

[FlyBoy1960]

if you're airfield is isolated and there is nobody within line of sight an "all station"s call won't do anything ?

[facthunter]

People at altitude.   IF you are serious have someone with a handheld .Nev

Edited 15 hours ago by facthunter
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[onetrack]

Greg Vaughan had mates watching and listening for him, and associates working in a nearby hangar, so its not like any calls he made wouldn't be heard.

In a rural region, you'd arrange for a friend or associate with a radio to check your transmissions were coming through.

And if you were in such a remote spot that there's no-one within a 100 kms, then all you can hope for is an aircraft nearby at altitude that's listening.

[Love to fly]

14 minutes ago, facthunter said:

People at altitude.   IF you are serious have someone with a handheld .Nev

My comments were just in relation to doing a comns check every flight. I don't for obvious reasons.  But I do check that tx comes up when I give a taxi call. 

[skippydiesel]

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

 

In a rural region, you'd arrange for a friend or associate with a radio to check your transmissions were coming through.

And if you were in such a remote spot that there's no-one within a 100 kms, then all you can hope for is an aircraft nearby at altitude that's listening.

While I agree your radio check advice is what we should all aspire to, it seems to me that you have gone too far in not recognising the realities of operating from small country strips.

I always make taxi, lineup, rolling , departure (leg) calls etc. Only "once in a blue moon" do I get any sort of response/acknowledgement, and this is from within the Sydney Basin.

Technically this is not a radio check, however I also know that most often there is no one on my CTAF to respond, no one on the airfield at all.

I do monitor Area Frequency, so know that I am receiving but have no guarantee that my transmission are being heard, until airborne, when I may (on rare occasions) be able to raise someone at a neighbouring field, on the same CTAF.

This is also the situaton, when on a trip, to many more remote airfields, that is unless there is a Club meeting/RPT/Student training/etc. 😈

[Thruster88]

A type of radio failure that has happened in our ctaf is pilot headset plugged into the copilot Jack's, radio appears to work but no voice is transmitted. This was two different aircraft with all the Jack's between and or partly behind the seats.

[pmccarthy]

I have done that in a Bristell. The sockets are together. We had no comms, thought the radio was u/s.