narchee
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Long Blinker
Okay, here's another one from my ATP drinking buddy Bob (not his real name). He told me a little bit about how the track system over the North Atlantic works and how things have got a lot easier compared to previous times. They don't need to use HF anymore and can even communicate with ATC via something like text messaging. And they don't really need to give position reports anymore either because ATC can see exactly where they are not through radar but through I guess the equivalent of ADS-B.
Pretty interesting.
He did say that it gets quite constricted and sometimes you can get an inconvenient routing maybe getting beaten up by turbulence, etc, for whatever reason you don't like what you have and ATC can't help you out. His solution? Squawk 7600 and descend to FL280. You're now off the "track system" as he called it and you can do whatever you like...
Nice to know this could be happening when you're back in 32B!
Again, I don't know if this is real or just a drinking story.
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Pretty interesting.
He did say that it gets quite constricted and sometimes you can get an inconvenient routing maybe getting beaten up by turbulence, etc, for whatever reason you don't like what you have and ATC can't help you out. His solution? Squawk 7600 and descend to FL280. You're now off the "track system" as he called it and you can do whatever you like...
Nice to know this could be happening when you're back in 32B!
Again, I don't know if this is real or just a drinking story.
Comments?