LANE TALK MAKING SENSE OF CIVILIAN AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS Jean Baker, KIN9DD Tools for a Great Aero Summer Welcome aboard! Sporty's Pilot dedicated page on the Internet (see http: // Shop is advertising a new handheld www.faa.gov) contains safety information, scanner that looks as if it was made including accident, incident, and near -mid- to order for aero buffs. The scanner is called air- collision data. This type of data was pre- the JD -100; it receives the civilian aero band viously available only through the Freedom (118.000 MHz - 142.975 MHz) and the mili- of Information Act. American Transair B -757, via Carolyn tary aero band (220 MHz - 399.975 MHz). Coming, if not already here, is a data base Stone, CA This is a full- fledged scanner with 20- specifically designed for the web page which channel memory, a priority feature, and a 131.525: American Trans Air Dispatch - IND will include basic information on airlhtes three -year warranty. The power source is four (also used wherever Amtran has a such as their date of initial certification and AA batteries. Cost is astonishingly low - hub - Midway [Chicago], Milwau- the types of aircraft they operate. kee, Philadelphia, Detroit, etc.) only $150.00. It almost sounds too good to be 131.550: America West Dispatch - IND true! 131.625: United - STL; DHL - SLC HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL Available at additional cost is a 115 or 230 131.675: Delta Maintenance - ATL American volt wall power adapter, a cigarette lighter Eagle - BOS Houston Intercontinental power adapter, a carrying case, and a metal 131.700: Northwest - BOS, DIA; Southwest Approach: 120.050 (North and East), 124.350 (West) Dispatch - STL, BDL Departures: 119.700 (North), 123.800 (West), belt clip. Interestingly, it was made for Sporty's 131.750: American Ramp - BOS; El Al - JFK; 133.600 (East), 134.450 (South) Pilot Shop by JAL Data, a division of Japan Northwest - BNA Clearance: 128.100 Tower: 118.100 Airlines. This scanner should be ideal for air 131.775: Blue Ridge - BOS, Islip (ISP); Ground Control: 121.700 Lufthansa - JFK shows this summer. ARTCC: 133.800, 132.950, 134.800 131.825: FedEx - Many locations For more information, Contact Sporty's 131.850: Delta - ATL, BOS, BDL, FLL, RSW, PIT; Pilot Shop at (513) 735 -9000; Clearmont Amtran - BOS County Airport, Batavia, OH 45103. 131.900: Delta Radio This 'n That 131.925: FedEx - Many locations 131.950: Delta - CVG, PIT; American - DIA More Company Frequencies Air France will boost capacity on its daily 132.000: Virgin Atlantic - JFK nonstop between Washington and Paris by (Continued from last month) 50% this summer by substituting a 381 -seat 130.625: TWA - Boston (BOS); TWA Express Airline Safety Data 747 for the Airbus A340. The airline will Ramp - STL 130.700: American Eagle - JFK; ComAir - PVD; A few months ago, the FAA started to continue to operate 747s on many transatlan- Delta - PVD; TWA - SLC; ARINC provide consumers with basic airline safety tic routes, while U.S. carriers use the smaller frequency on domestic net data. The FAA will release information about twin -engine 767s and 777s. The only 747s 130.750: USAir Shuttle - Bos & LGA individual carriers that consumers have asked between Paris and New York, Newark, Los 130.850: America West (Cactus) - BOS Angeles, Miami, and Washington will be 130.900: Continental - DIA; Delta - Cincinnati for in the wake of last year' s fatal accidents (CVG); Delta - Atlanta Radio involving passenger carriers. Agency offi- operated by the French Flag Carrier. It also 130.950: Business Express - BDL; Manchester, cials said because airline accidents rarely oc- serves Paris from Chicago, Houston, and San NH (HHC); Bridgeport (BDR); cur, it is difficult to develop a meaningful Francisco. American Eagle - JFK rating that Although Air France's transatlantic flights 130.975: TWA Express (Redbird) - PVD; system would provide consumers American Eagle - JFK with useful information for making a decision are nonsmoking in passenger seating areas, it 131.000: Northeast Express - BOS; Northwest - about which airline to fly. is equipping its aircraft with two stand -up RSW; USAir - PIT Although most major U.S. airlines support smoker's bars for economy and premium 131.050: TWA - JFK; PIT the FAA's initiative to help educate the public passengers. The "bars" are enclosed by drapes 131.075: United - ATL, DIA, RSW, BDL, PVD and have special 131.100: British Airways Ops - ORD; about aviation safety, an American Airlines fans to draw smoke and TWExpress Dispatch - STL official said the agency "must be sure that fumes. 131.150: American Eagle - Sarasota (SRQ), what it tells consumers will be explained" so Japan Airlines expects operations of a new Naples (APF); Northwest - BDL; Delta the public can understand it. But if the infor- discount subsidiary, JAL Express, to begin in Ops - ATL mation becomes a competitive issue "airlines the first half of its 1998 fiscal year with 131.175: TWA Maintenance - JFK; Longhorn two Dispatch - SFO may stop sharing safety data" he said. A Delta 747 -400s. JAL Express will operate some of 131.300: Alitalia - JFK; AMR Combs - BDL Air Lines official said the carrier is "very JAL's low- demand runs on a "wet- lease" 131.125: TowerAir - JFK, MIA; happy" that the program will not rank airlines. basis (in which aircraft, flight deck and cabin 131.350: Delta Shuttle - BOS; United - DIA The agency is issuing information about crew are all leased together), and study the 131.400: American Ops - MIA; Olympic - BOS; Skywest - SLC new enforcement actions against airlines that possibility of taking over some domestic trunk 131.450: Business Express - BOS; Delta - ATL, involve civil penalties of $50,000 or more, as routes and international sectors. Cockpit crews BNA, SLC well as significant regulatory actions such as will not be Japanese initially, although Japanse 131.500: Air Ontario - BDL; American Eagle - revoking a carrier' s operating certificate. A recruits will be sought later. BDL; 76 MONITORING TIMES July 1997 .