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You will not hear yourself on the receiver in the center, approach and tower rooms if atc is not there. Those are atc-specific voice rooms. You should use the CTAF outside of our operating hours, not ground or Unicom.

Thanks, will do.

I tried ground because at the moment we were both on the ...

kullery wrote:Check the on line map. This will show you if an aircraft is a drone or not.

If it's not, it will show you the pilots name and the frequency they are on.

That's a great answer, thanks! I knew about the map but didn't think to use it in this case

Are you sure it wasn't a drone? The drones are flying 24/7. If so, it won't respond lol.
What airport?
To answer your question - use the same frequency they would real world.

Hi Kyle!

It was a red EC-140 which I started following between KSBP and some place about 30 miles to the north, I forget ...

Hello!

I've got a newbie question. Outside of ATC service hours, what's the best frequency to contact somebody nearby? I noticed another helicopter flying on the same airport as me and tried calling it on tower, ground, and unicom; but he either didn't hear me, or was tuned someplace else, or didn ...