[Scan-DC] Question for pilots...

[Larry Sampas]

If you're looking for DCA, the ILS has issues beyond 14 nautical
miles/below 1600 feet MSL: !DCA 09/143 (KDCA A0422/08) DCA NAV RWY 1
ILS LLZ/DME UNUSBL BYD 14/BLW 1600.

https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/ has current NOTAMS available outside of
a flight briefing.

Some flight service stations can broadcast voice through VORs as noted
on the sectional charts. This is useful in case COM radios
malfunction, but NAV radios area still working. Other VORs, like EMI,
broadcast weather information. All VORs broadcast their identifier in
morse. The sectional charts also have the morse code printed on them,
since pilots don't have to learn it. I have had a hard time tuning in
VORs below 1000 feet.

All scheduled commercial flights are always on instrument flight plans
-- they might go off at the end to visual, depending on weather and
the airport, but you can be sure they'll keep their squawk codes in
the DC area. Almost all instrument training is done during visual
flight conditions.

If you really want to learn about air radio traffic in our area, take
a flight lesson out of one of the airports near DC, like Leesburg or
Montgomery Air Park.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Larry Van Horn <n5fpw at brmemc.net> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me whether the localizer, glide slope, and marker
>> transmissions are always on, even during VFR conditions?
>
> Absolutely always on (not everyone flies VFR even on nice days) unless they
> have been taken down for maintenance in which case they will issue a NOTAM.
>
> Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
> Brasstown, NC USA
> MT Assistant/Review Editor
> Milcom/What's New Columnist
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Clegg" <w4jecom at w4je.com>
> To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:35 AM
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Question for pilots...
>
>
>> Can anyone tell me whether the localizer, glide slope, and marker
>> transmissions are always on, even during VFR conditions? I was going to
>> take
>> a bike ride with my AR8200 and see if I could hear these transmissions
>> from
>> the DCA facilities, but if I don't hear them, I'm wondering if it might be
>> that they are turned on and off as needed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
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