Hi,
I am using PF3 with MCE and every time I cross the Atlantic, when I get to the European side, I have little or no ATC coverage.
Yesterday I flew from CYUL (Montreal) to LFPG (Paris). Getting close to Gander. ATC advise me that I was transfer to Gander Oceanic. I received a SELCAL test, then a second message that the SELCAL worked ok and a new squawk code of 2000. When I reach the Shannon area, I didn’t get any controller communication or handoff from oceanic control, I flew over Ireland and then I reach the England cost, no ATC com whatsoever. I ask my FO (MCE) to contact controller, he did and we got an answer from ‘’ London control’’ and no new frequency but a new squawk code (actually the same that I received at departure). I continue my flight to LFPG and received no ATC guidance until and heard no other plane communications. Getting very close to my destination, I was entering the STAR, I decide to communicate with LFPG approach, I then got transfer to LFPG Tower for landing.
The handoff from Oceanic control to a European controller, never happened. Do I have to do anything during the Oceanic crossing? Or is this normal.
Pierre