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evapilotaz

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I seem to be making minor bone head mistakes lately when flying. I blame not getting out flying enough.

So here is a question for you all. Based on the Picture below what frequency would I be broadcasting on.

I will tell you my bone head mistake after I get confirmation form you all on what frequency I would be broadcasting on.
 
broadcasting on 124.4 AND listening on the same.
 
You are broadcasting on Com1 (124.40), monitoring Com2, which is set to same frequency.
 
You should have been listening to 121.5 on comm 2.
 
So did you switch to 26.1 but keep listening on 24.4 and respond on the wrong frequency?
 
What comm are you using,comm two could be on 127.3?
 
Let me guess. You called Ground, got a taxi clearance, went to the runup area, did your run-up, then "switched" to Tower, and called Ground again.

You wouldn't be the first....
 
MAKG1 said:
Let me guess. You called Ground, got a taxi clearance, went to the runup area, did your run-up, then "switched" to Tower, and called Ground again.

You wouldn't be the first....
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That'd be normal ops at KAPA. ;-)
(ATIS: Special Procedures in effect...)
 
Trying to have a conversation with yourself? ;)

I would not recommend setting both radios to the same freq as they could cause interference with each other. Also I have read that due to the antennas being very close to one another that transmitting on one when the other is set to the same freq can cause damage to the non transmitting radio. Then again, I have also read and heard that this is an old wives tale. But why risk it?
 
SkyDog58 said:
Trying to have a conversation with yourself? ;)

I would not recommend setting both radios to the same freq as they could cause interference with each other. Also I have read that due to the antennas being very close to one another that transmitting on one when the other is set to the same freq can cause damage to the non transmitting radio. Then again, I have also read and heard that this is an old wives tale. But why risk it?
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Definitely OWT. You're going to have one hell of a feedback squeal if you have the overhead speaker on, however.
 
evapilotaz said:
I seem to be making minor bone head mistakes lately when flying. I blame not getting out flying enough.

So here is a question for you all. Based on the Picture below what frequency would I be broadcasting on.

I will tell you my bone head mistake after I get confirmation form you all on what frequency I would be broadcasting on.
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so, like, is this eventually going to be a great story about how doing a gaggle of hookers and gobbs of coke distracted your radio work? or what? c'mon, man!
 
I had comm mic2 turned on and 121.6 tower frequency selected on the Garmin. I had comm 2 turned down not knowing it. I was sitting at the hold short line of runway 22r trying to get clearance from tower and I got no response. It was maybe 5 minutes trying to call up tower but it seemed like much longer. Also there was 3 airplanes waiting behind me. I was broadcasting on ground by accident and couldNt hear their reply because com2 was turned down. I managed to figure it out and selected comm mic1 and made sure tower was selected in the garmin. I was a little shaken after that but calmed my nervous and got clearance for take off and had an uneventful flight.
 
evapilotaz said:
I had comm mic2 turned on and 121.6 tower frequency selected on the Garmin. I had comm 2 turned down not knowing it. I was sitting at the hold short line of runway 22r trying to get clearance from tower and I got no response. It was maybe 5 minutes trying to call up tower but it seemed like much longer. Also there was 3 airplanes waiting behind me. I managed to figure it out and selected comm mic1 and made sure tower was selected in the garmin. I was a little shaken after that but calmed my nervous and got clearance for take off and had an uneventful flight.
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I would say that if you had 121.6 on active then someone done photoshopped your pics, cause I aint seein that anywhere.
 
once I got back to the fbo chief flight instructor heard the the entire thing as he monitors the frequency. He gave me a talking to and explained my mistakes which I already figured out. I felt like I was in the principles office.
I long the day of aircraft ownership where all my comm and Nav settings are the same as I left them.
 
eman1200 said:
I would say that if you had 121.6 on active then someone done photoshopped your pics, cause I aint seein that anywhere.
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I took that pict after I parked the airplane. It doesn't show tower 126.1 on top of the garmin and comm 2 mic turned on. like I had it prior to take off when I messed up.
 
SkyDog58 said:
Trying to have a conversation with yourself? ;)

I would not recommend setting both radios to the same freq as they could cause interference with each other. Also I have read that due to the antennas being very close to one another that transmitting on one when the other is set to the same freq can cause damage to the non transmitting radio. Then again, I have also read and heard that this is an old wives tale. But why risk it?
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This is actually quite common practice for me when I fly west. My COM1 radio has decent reception while my COM2 radio has GREAT reception. On those times, when I lose radio contact with ATC, I find it helpful to listen on both radios and xmit on COM1 (COM1 has better transmit clarity).
 
evapilotaz said:
No there is no comm 3
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no but there is some freaky ass motha fkng sht goin on up in this here thread.

"take a look at this pic and tell me what freq I'm transmitting on in an entirely different pic that I'm not going to show you". I think the only thing you forgot to add to your thread title was 'A Satire'.......
 
FWIW I have a practice that works well for me. Use it or don't but just an idea.
I set comm 2 to my destination ATIS / tower and use Comm 1 as my working radio.

So basically comm 2 is hands off once I am taxiing.
I mainly do this so I have 1 less task when I am prepping to land / enter the pattern and it leaves me with only 1 radio to mess with for other portions of taxi / flight.
 
like this? or would com2 light be off?
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so this, with comm2 volume down?, ok, i'll have to not do that
 
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This is why I never turn a radio volume down unless I keep my hand on it until I turn it back up (I prefer to simply use the audio panel selectors to turn them on and off).
 
Tflhndn said:
This is why I never turn a radio volume down unless I keep my hand on it until I turn it back up (I prefer to simply use the audio panel selectors to turn them on and off).
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I'll usually flip flop to guard if I need to silence a radio and only have one lit... but sometimes that's worse than what I had tuned before.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
FWIW I have a practice that works well for me. Use it or don't but just an idea.
I set comm 2 to my destination ATIS / tower and use Comm 1 as my working radio.

So basically comm 2 is hands off once I am taxiing.
I mainly do this so I have 1 less task when I am prepping to land / enter the pattern and it leaves me with only 1 radio to mess with for other portions of taxi / flight.
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I use comm 2 to get the ATIS (which tells me comm2 is receiving) and use comm 1 for ground and tower. Then set comm2 for ATIS of airports I pass or the destination as I'm flying along. I do use it to monitor 121.5 in between.

John
 
Like jsstevens and many others, Com1 is for the talkin, Com2 is for the listening.
 
I am the same as others.

Comm 1 is my talking radio...I have ONE place I always need to look to see where I am transmitting vs having to look at comm panel first to see what is active and where I need to look next.

Com 2 is my monitor only radio (ATIS/guard/CTAF of field I am approaching)

Volumes never get touched once set just for your situation's reason. Much easier to see visually what is happening on the comm panel and activate/deactivate there.
 
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If we're talking SOPs now, I use com1 for in-flight ATC (tower, approach, center), and com2 for everything else (wx, FSS, ground, CD, 121.5). On a CAP flight, com2 is for the right seat (usually to monitor 121.5, as the VHF radio really is the best way to detect an ELT -- but if the right seat is also a pilot, he can handle FSS).
 
Ah, been there.
What will help you a lot is disabling the squelch real quick (either pull the volume knob on a KX radio or push on Garmins) to check that you can hear on the frequency. And at the same time, I check which radio I am on.

But I hear ya, owning makes it easier.
Though still not an excuse for not checking which radio you were on. ;)

Now stop flogging yourself, you have learned a lesson (and hopefully improved your process) and now GO FLY! :)
 
What screwed me up was Comm 2 mike was turned on and not Comm 1.
I recently started flying this airplane and I never had so many Buttons and a Garmin from the previous airplane I was flying.

I felt bad for the people behind me waiting at the hold short line while I fumbled through the radio. Having tower asked if I had an instructor on Board was an embarrassment and then being embarrassed by the Chief Flight instructor at the FBO asking what the Heck Happened.

Ok time to move on and learned from my mistake. PPL is truly a license to learn.
 
Top lights are who you are listening to, bottom ones are who are transmitting to, if you select com 1 or 2 for transmit the top light comes on by default, garmin figured you probably should also listen on the freq you're talking on.

If you select transmit on com 1 but don't want to monitor com 2, leave the volume alone and just turn off the top light on com 2, if that makes sense.



Don't worry about it, heck I've had ground on com 2 and tower on 1, watching the line guy and fat finger the com panel and end up calling up tower instead of ground, it happens
 
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