Might be a stupid question, but have wondered when you call up flight service and you call through say 122.00 and receive them over a VOR, are there people that actually sit in vor stations? Where actually are these flight service "controllers"
Years ago, when most G.A. radios had only a handful of transmitting crystals, and receivers with analog tuning, pilots would transmit to FSSs on 122.1 and to towers on 122.5, and then tune the receiver to the appropriate frequency for that facility.BTW, it's transmit on 122.1 and listen on the VOR. The other FSS freq's are all talk/listen on the same freq, and 122.0 is the Flight Watch frequency (also talk/listen), not standard FSS.
Might be a stupid question, but have wondered when you call up flight service and you call through say 122.00 and receive them over a VOR, are there people that actually sit in vor stations?"
Where actually are these flight service "controllers"
Might be a stupid question, but have wondered when you call up flight service and you call through say 122.00 and receive them over a VOR, are there people that actually sit in vor stations? Where actually are these flight service "controllers"
...I've had to go so far as to hear a severe icing PIREP, get no response on the dial line and later call WXBRIEF on my personal cell phone on break. That's a hoot believe me. Try telling them N12345 B767 encountered severe mixed on the phone without getting hung up on.
The last FSS with DF steer capability was somewhere up in Alaska, but I think even that one is now gone.