Dan77 wrote: * | Mon Jan 30, 2017 4:09 pm |
Frequencies for WP: 0 EKOD
Mul - 0
Uni - 0
Grd - 0
Twr - 0
Clr - 0
App - 118.5
Dep - 132.6
FSS - 119.52 |
Your departure airport is uncontrolled so I think you have a few options. You can take off and contact Departure once airborne (hotkey 0 to request flight following), or you can (if you wish) use PF3's "Add A New Facility Frequency" feature to add a Unicom frequency for the airport, so you can advise before taking the runway.
Thanks for the replies.
1. If I take off and contact Departure once airborne means that I am not advising taking the runway. I presume that this would be very dangerous.
2. Does this mean that I have to "Add A New Facility Frequency" for every uncontrolled airport that I want to take off from? BTY, I tried to add a new facility frequency for ETME, but after I entered the icao and pressed the enter key as instructed, PF3 just crashed to the desktop.
30/01/2017 16:10:23: 160 - Transcript: 'Radio Australian 4 Would you please open my VFR flight plan at this time? '
30/01/2017 16:10:31: 340 - Transcript: 'Australian 4 Roger. We'll open your flight plan at 8 '
Presumably you were on the ground at EKOD at this time.
30/01/2017 16:13:38: 110 - Transcript: 'Radio Australian 4 On the ground at 1111 local VFR would like to amend my flight plan to land at Echo Kilo Oscar Delta '
Presumably you are still at EKOD? In which case as you are on the ground at EKOD you have tehnically landed I suppose.
Question why would you ammend your fpl to land at a destination this is currently your origin, unless you were planning touch and go's?
Oh, and an interesing point is that ETME is not on the current airac database.
I amended my flight plan to land at a destination which was currently my origin as I was just playing around with the number keys in case I missed something.
EDIT: I created another flight plan from an uncontrolled airport: YNBR - YARM - YSCH. I tuned to Multicom on 125.1 and initial check in was in the air only. I then tuned to FSS on 122. I requested to open a flight plan which ATC then acknowledged. Once again there was no further options to advise taking the runway.
I am just wondering if PF3 does not support ATC at uncontrolled airports. The reason I am asking is that I am considering purchase, but I like to do a lot of flying VFR from uncontrolled airports. It's just me.
Log file attached.
Thanks for any replies.
John