[ACARS] Bowling Green, KY / 131.550

davepeel [email protected]
Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:04:59 -0000


> >
> > If this guy is meant to me doing Istanbul,Turkey-Paris,
> > Charles de Gaulle, France then I think he's somewhat
> > lost if you got him over the USA!
> >
> > F-GFKP  20031226 1608 AF1591  (Airbus A320-211 Air France)
> > (Istanbul,Turkey-Paris, Charles de Gaulle, France)
> 
> The ACARS decoder Mark-2 has internet facilities which allows direct
> connection to the ACARS-D servers in such exotic places as Budapest,
> Helsiki, New Zealand and Frankfurt, so it's perfectly normal to listen
> to these stations whilst also logging local stuff. No problem 
> here. The
> flight wasn't OVER the USA; he was simply logged by someone 
> IN the USA.
> .there's a difference !!
> 
Having run acars while resident in Connecticut, as well as in the UK
before and since, the idea of processing messages from both sides of the
pond at once is too horrifying to contemplate!

Dave Peel