Foreflight - radio frequency “v”

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Not sure when this started, but Foreflight has a “V” after a lot of the frequencies on the Airports page. I can’t find a reference for it in the guide. What does “V” mean?IMG_1410.png
 
Pretty sure it’s VHF. Look at a field near a military field and UHF frequencies can be seen with a U next to them.

Edit to add: Look at KMCN or KPXE and see the frequencies listed for KWRB.
 
Huh. Well, I guess someone might confuse 123.0 for a UHF frequency, but you’d think that the folks flying planes with UHF radios wouldn’t do that.
 
ateamer said:
Huh. Well, I guess someone might confuse 123.0 for a UHF frequency, but you’d think that the folks flying planes with UHF radios wouldn’t do that.
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My thoughts exactly. Seems redundant and unnecessarily redundant. Putting VHF into a UHF, and vice versa, gives an invalid message and won’t tune.
 
U = Unnecessary Since I don't have an option to switch between UHF and VHF radios, since no one has to, this is useless information.
 
midlifeflyer said:
I have it from a reliable source that it does stand for VHF.

Why is another question.
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Given that the difference between UHF and VHF is the frequency, I hope that nobody thought it was necessary to tell people that 123.45 is a VHF frequency. The valid reason to do something like this would be to make it easier and faster to find the frequency he needs based on whether he wants UHF or VHF. But I don't think appending a V or U on the end of the number accomplishes that.
 
iamtheari said:
Given that the difference between UHF and VHF is the frequency, I hope that nobody thought it was necessary to tell people that 123.45 is a VHF frequency. The valid reason to do something like this would be to make it easier and faster to find the frequency he needs based on whether he wants UHF or VHF. But I don't think appending a V or U on the end of the number accomplishes that.
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I agree. The only explanation I got was

"This notation was recently added to ForeFlight's airport frequency listings to help pilots quickly identify VHF frequencies."

Which still leaves me wondering why.
 
midlifeflyer said:
I agree. The only explanation I got was

"This notation was recently added to ForeFlight's airport frequency listings to help pilots quickly identify VHF frequencies."

Which still leaves me wondering why.
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Because the dev team doesn’t understand aviation?

That would be a bad sign given the broader context of FF as a company and Boeing as a parent. I doubt it cost nothing to make that change, so somebody, somewhere prioritized that over something else. Has FF hit the end of the road for things it could do better?
 
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Check out radio panel lower left.
 
TCABM said:
Has FF hit the end of the road for things it could do better?
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Clearly not. One thing ForeFlight could do better is getting rid of the V after every VHF radio frequency. :cool:
 
No, bút uhf is still in a few planes. Thank goodness they put the vhf in there too.
 
ateamer said:
And? Did he accidentally try to tune the UHF radio to 135.02 but for Foreflight having a V after the frequency?
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Mikey52 said:
No, bút uhf is still in a few planes. Thank goodness they put the vhf in there too.
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Yes, but that's the point. The addition of the V has to be based on the assumption that a statistically significant number of pilots (mostly military pilots) with that setup don't know the difference and will try to input 122.8 into the UHF radio or 255.4 into the VHF radio. And if they did, wouldn't be able to quickly figure out that they were in the wrong radio. Maybe we need something to remind us not to try to put that ILS frequency into the NAV radio? Heck, that "V" might stand for "VLOC"!!!
 
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