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Re: Does "Lifeboat Navigation" exist today?
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Jun 21, 00:34 -0700
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Jun 21, 00:34 -0700
I thought that Gary's excellent info on communicatons (in extremis) with commercial aircraft should be more widely known amongst leisure sailors.
Now I am now not so sure. There has been a huge increase in relatively inexperienced sailors who can not leave a marina berth without calling the coastguard for a "radio check". On a fine weekend afternoon, this seems to be reaching epidemic proportions. I can imagine a situation where, having completed their radio checks on marine band vhf their attention will switch to calling on aeronautical frequencies, with predictable results.
John
