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RPS and QNH mixed messages

Peter wrote:

and the usual pilot guides PPLs use won’t list Gatwick info because of zero GA using it.

The “usual pilot guide” these days is SkyDemon (or similar) and it’s one screen press away to find Gatwick ATIS. It’s really not hard. I didn’t need to be trained to do it — it’s something I find pretty obvious, to be honest.

Andreas IOM

alioth wrote:

The “usual pilot guide” these days is SkyDemon (or similar) and it’s one screen press away to find Gatwick ATIS. It’s really not hard. I didn’t need to be trained to do it — it’s something I find pretty obvious, to be honest.

But why would you even think to do this… You should be given the most appropriate QNH by the FIS you are talking to, as in every other country in Europe. As someone pointed out earlier, this is down to the fragmented UK ATC “system”…

Regards, SD..

skydriller wrote:

But why would you even think to do this… You should be given the most appropriate QNH by the FIS you are talking to, as in every other country in Europe.

Perhaps he’s turned off the radio, as I often do. The other day I reminded myself that I should talk to ATC en route once in a while for practice, especially since in the US you can now get a Flight Following squawk code etc from many airports ground control frequency. However, with ADS-B In my utility in talking to ATC is not high unless it’s an airport tower and I’m e.g. landing.

I think the future will involve not talking to anybody, or nearly so.

Last Edited by Silvaire at 14 Feb 15:04

skydriller wrote:

You should be given the most appropriate QNH by the FIS you are talking to

You might not be talking to them or anyone.

But if you’re talking to London Info, you can ask them for the same information. It’s just faster and uses up less radio bandwidth (no need for the exchange to request, get, and read back) to pull it up on Skydemon.

Andreas IOM
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