Timeline for Can the guard frequency be used by non-aircraft / general public?
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| Aug 23, 2021 at 15:55 | comment | added | reirab | @AnthonyX Yeah, that used to be the case in the U.S., but the radio operator license is no longer required for pilots here. We are allowed to transmit on the aviation bands without any radio operator license within the U.S. U.S. pilots only need a radio operator license if they're going to fly into other countries that still require it (which the vast majority of non-commercial U.S. pilots never do.) | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 14:51 | history | edited | Anthony X | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2021 at 14:46 | comment | added | Anthony X | @reirab I am speaking from my Canadian experience from about 20 years ago. At that time, a pre-requisite for obtaining a private pilot's license was a radio operator's license, so a sub-set of pilot training included preparation for a radio operator license test, and the radio operator license was issued independent of a pilot's license. Although you can fly NORDO, it is considered more the exception than the rule, hence the radio license requirement. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 8:43 | comment | added | walen | @TerranSwett Nice to know, thanks. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 8:42 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | @walen That's not the way it works in the United States. Pilots on board aircraft are allowed to transmit by virtue of the fact that they're on board aircraft, not by virtue of the fact that they have pilot's licenses. Getting a pilot's license doesn't grant any radio privileges. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 7:44 | comment | added | walen | @reirab In Spain, licensed boat captains do not require a separate radio operator license to transmit on maritime frequencies either... because the captain license already allows them to do so. Maybe it is the same for US pilots? They do not require a radio op license because their pilot license "includes" one? | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 4:29 | comment | added | reirab | Pilots do no require any radio operator license to transmit on aviation frequencies in the U.S. This hasn't been a requirement in the U.S. for decades (presumably because all of the relevant radio knowledge is already covered in pilot training, so it's rather redundant for pilots.) It's completely legal for pilots to purchase and transmit with either handheld aviation radios or ones built into aircraft with no radio operator license here. I'm not sure about the legal situation of this for non-pilots, though. | |
| Aug 22, 2021 at 14:29 | comment | added | Dave Gremlin | " pilots generally don't monitor the guard frequency as a matter of routine" also there may well be NORDO traffic up there! | |
| Aug 22, 2021 at 13:22 | history | edited | Anthony X | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2021 at 13:14 | history | answered | Anthony X | CC BY-SA 4.0 |