VFR not flight following radios freqs

[falopz]

Hi if youre not recieving flight following and controller says change to advisory freq and you making a long haul how you know what are the frequencies you should be monitoring for example for traffic and if you want to contact any controller,.

i know in sectionals there are some pubolished ones but theyre not always under th scope of controllers

this is in the case when you dont ask for flight followin, you sqw 1200 and they cut you loose, what to do if you want to be taking controll again....i guess for example not with the controll tower of the airport youre going to,,,,,

luis

[C-JBCS]

Hi if youre not recieving flight following and controller says change to advisory freq and you making a long haul how you know what are the frequencies you should be monitoring for example for traffic and if you want to contact any controller,.

i know in sectionals there are some pubolished ones but theyre not always under th scope of controllers

this is in the case when you dont ask for flight followin, you sqw 1200 and they cut you loose, what to do if you want to be taking controll again....i guess for example not with the controll tower of the airport youre going to,,,,,

luis

Hi Luis. I've taken to flying on PE with an Ipad and skyvector's web page loaded up.... I would look at the information page for an airport you're flying near or departing and in most cases you'll find the approach/departure frequency your looking for.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

[falopz]

no, thats not what im looking for, specifi airports frequencies i know where there are, i mean when ur hauling between long airspaces wich frec we should monitor

luis

[Keith Smith]

Other than the real world requirement to monitor Guard (121.50), there is no specific frequency to monitor when you're not in airspace where communication is required with ATC.

[falopz]

so, if controller says change to advisory freq, wich one we choose?

I WAS FROM KAVX TO KENM WICH IS THE ADVISORY there?

luis

[Frank Pate]

Hi Luis,

I'm pretty sure the controller advises to change to advisory frequency when you are approaching an uncontrolled airport or ATC is not up. If flight following is cancelled, they will tell you to squawk VFR and frequency change approved... nothing about an advisory frequency enroute.

From the uncontrolled airport you departed on, you should have already announced your position reports from taxi to take off - then switched to approach for VFR flight following - then when close to an airport, released being told to squawk VFR (1200) and frequency change approved... or Change to advisory frequency. So KENM would be the airport to monitor and shout out your position reports and intentions if I understand your question correctly.

[falopz]

framk sorry it was to ramona KRNM, sorry about that, ramona is controlled.....so in between bith i cotinued to montior socal and it workm but what could happened if its a loger flight to a controled one like ramone but i leave socal area....

luis

[Scott Medeiros]

There's no requirement to monitor any specific frequency. It's good practice to monitor guard on comm2 (121.5) and to monitor or announce your position on UNICOM for any airports you may be over flying. Monitoring helps build a mental picture of other traffic and adds to your overall situational awareness. Of course, not all traffic may be communicating over the radio, so don't forget to visually scan for traffic outside.

[Frank Pate]

Well, if you are on VFR flight following, then you will be handed off by the controllers to a specific frequency. If you are not on VFR flight following, then their really isnt a frequency for you to monitor from an FAA point of view as long as you stay clear of controlled airspace and are not intending to land at an uncontrolled airport or airport where ATC is not up. You'll know if ATC is not up if you call on the tower freq and get no response. But I imagine on PE that is very rare if at all.

VFR in uncontrolled airspace is just see and avoid. Even if you are VFR and using flight following, look out of the window and enjoy the view as you watch for aircraft. As someone mentioned earlier, 120.5 if you feel you want to monitor something if not in flight following.... or if you just want to listen to the ATC chatter then pick a SoCal approach/departure frequency listed on a near by airport chart. (...for the most part. PE does change it up a bit at a few controlled areas as I've read in other forum posts.)

Enjoy your VFR freedom, but stay in control of your situational awareness of where you are. As Keith wrote in a post somewhere, he had to ask someone.... "do you really not have an idea of where you are? That can be a learning experience, but should be far and in between if you plan your flights. I remember my private pilot instructor telling me, you're never "really" lost. Just confused for a minute while you find the last VOR you know you flew near or were about to fly near.

Cheers! Lets hook up sometime and file a VFR plan to somewhere and discuss before we take off.

Frank
Baron 71FS / Kingair 199Y / Duke 2889W (in case you hear me online)

[Keith Smith]

there's no need to monitor any particular frequency. You're not receiving any service and communication with ATC is not required. If you are asking how to look up frequencies for the area you're in, that's a separate question, but the answer to the question of what you NEED to set the radio to is 'nothing at all'.

If you plan on monitoring for a long distance, it's best to just receive flight following so they can give you the actual frequencies as needed.

Otherwise, if you're asking how to look up a frequency for a given area, you can find the nearest airport with instrument approaches and see what the approach freq is on the charts, you can check the AFD, you can use a real world GPS (the nav database contains this info), or if you're not in a TRACON's airspace (an approach), you can look up the ARTCC frequencies on the low-enroute chart (most vfr pilots wouldn't have that info, though).