Here's a thread that he started on illegal use of 123.45:
I'd look farther out. I've had this happen... trying to call a station 180 nm out but getting drown out by people using the frequency a couple/10,000 feet below.
Well, since I'm locked in a hotel room for my layover with nothing but time, I did a little Google-Fu. If you go to the FCC's Frequency Database Search Engine and search for 131.5 licenses in FL, two come up.
May want to reconsider that.
I'm not Jim but I can tell you from experience that flight test freqs (like 123.45) are reserved for flight test *stations*, not flight test in general. Flight test stations are assigned freqs and don't necessarily get to select which frequencies they are assigned. Anecdotes where boneheads stepped on tests using these freqs are in the links @Palmpilot posted. Stations I have worked with requested (and received) alternates as well because we knew from experience there are those who will disregard the law without regard for impact.
Maybe they were operating under the assumption that most pilots could read and follow instructions.
I do not believe anyone is required to follow US law unless they are in the United States.
A freind is a teacher. Her SCHOOL set up their employee's internet passwords as the first letter of their first name and then up to seven letters of their last name.
I get a "License Search Error" message from that link.
I am a US citizen. When I was younger, owned no investment accounts or property in the United States, and was legally working in a foreign country for a foreign company I was not liable for any US taxes whatsoever. It is not illegal for US citizens to own foreign bank accounts-- it is illegal for ANYONE to hide money earned in the US, that includes by moving it outside the US. But I could have earned a "million-billion dollars" overseas-- full disclosure, I did not-- bought a yaucht, a condo and put the rest in an investment account there and returned to the US without owing Uncle Sam a dollar because I had already paid tio Simon on that income.
God that’s inane. So the authorized user of the frequency should know not to use because everyone else uses it without authorization?? You gotta be kidding. You’re smarter than that Ed. How about *******s with a pilot certificate should be capable of following basic rules. There is a frequency set aside just for air to air, use it.
Not trying to pick a fight here.
If I understand you correctly, what you're saying is not true.
Yes, it is.
I spent many years when I was younger living and working in Canada and around the Caribbean. I was always taxed by the country I resided in, and occasionally by a second country (IE: when we flew regular flights beteween Cuba and Mexico we were taxed by both countries.) I always filed US returns even though I did not owe any US taxes because I always intended to return to the US.
I'm certain that this is the view held by the IRS. And it is irrelevant. If a citizen of XYZ-land was born in the US and is a dual citizen and does not have investments in the US or an intent to live in the US, the US has no means to compel that person to pay US taxes. No country on earth will comply with an extradition order. It's moot.
Which would likely be pointless. If they earned their money in the US they are liable for US taxes, regardless of where they retire. I have heard anecdotal stories that some countries will not extradite US citizens that the IRS has leins on, but I'd never put myself in that position. I'm not suggesting that people cheat on their taxes. I've been there (employed and living overseas-- not a tax cheat), done that, and sat through hours of listening to company lawyers and accountants explain what we could do and what we could not do.
) The FATCA and the FBAR now have some teeth if you plan on doing anything in the US ever.