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muzz
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When you are departing a non-tower airport, outside of Appch control area but within LAX Ctr area, how do you contact atc?
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You can use the center frequency published on the approach plate for that approach, or a nearby airport. Alternatively, you can use a low enroute chart to identify the nearest center frequency.

In the future, we'll likely have a 1-800 number you can call to pick up your clearance on the ground, too. It's been discussed, believe it or not :)

Let me know if that helps. Name an airport and we'll give some examples if you like.
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Yesterday, I flew from BLH to BFD - probably outside of appch airspace but
in LAX airspace.
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Check out http://airnav.com/airport/kblh in the communications section.

Also, check the vor-a plate for the airport. The local ctr freq is available in either place in this case.

If it had no approaches, you could check a nearby airport that did.
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I should also mention, if you use skyvector.com to look on the L-4 enroute chart, centered on BLH, move your eye northwest towards Twenty Nine Palms VOR (TNP). You'll see a block of text just west of TNP that looks like a postage stamp which reads:

LOS ANGELES
Twenty Nine Palms
128.15 285.6

That is another way of finding the closest CTR freqs, too.

We have modeled the locations of all of the CTR transmitters for ZLA and ZOA on PE, so the frequencies should work.

Keith
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Yes, the enroute chart was the first place I looked. The 5 May chart, which is the latest I have
doesn't have that artcc box west of TNP, however, it is listed on the BLH approaches, - didn't
think to look there.... Thanks.
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So just as an example if I'm approaching PGS on J64 I would contact Peach Springs Los Angeles center on 128.075?

This really helped,
Thanks,
Pietro
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pmontanarella wrote:So just as an example if I'm approaching PGS on J64 I would contact Peach Springs Los Angeles center on 128.075?

This really helped,
Thanks,
Pietro
Drop the "Peach Springs" bit - That's just the location of the radio antenna. Otherwise that's the idea, yes.
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Alex Stjepanovic wrote:
pmontanarella wrote:So just as an example if I'm approaching PGS on J64 I would contact Peach Springs Los Angeles center on 128.075?

This really helped,
Thanks,
Pietro
Drop the "Peach Springs" bit - That's just the location of the radio antenna. Otherwise that's the idea, yes.
Roger thanks,
Pietro
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