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Unable to tune to frequency


Andrew Morkunas
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Andrew Morkunas
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I do not believe that this is a software issue: As a controller I sometimes get pilots PMing me saying that can not tune to my frequency. This happens in New York Center frequency 125.320. The pilot says, my radio only tunes 125.325. I have seen this in the stock CRJ700 from FSX but vPilot does go to the correct voice frequency. Is this a sim issue, plane issue, vPilot issue, dare I say pilot issue. I worked with a pilot for over 20 minutes to get him on frequency. The only issue I saw he was using a version 1.9 of vPilot.

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Joshua Black
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I've never had issues with this. 125.320 is essentially the same frequency as 125.325. Canada and the US don't speak the third decimal, but the frequency is still .325.

 

125.32

125.320

125.325

 

All the same frequencies from a VATSIM perspective. I don't understand why it wouldn't work... unless the pilot just [Mod - Happy Thoughts]umed that it wouldn't work after seeing 125.325 instead of 125.320 on the standby side, without ever actually trying it on the active comm.

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Bradley Grafelman
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EDIT: Nevermind, had it back to front. See this post (and the rest of the thread).

 

TL;DR: Sounds like SB4 and vPilot work just fine, but XSquawkBox might be the picky one if the pilot isn't directly tuning the desired frequency via keyboard commands (i.e. not twisting the knob in the aircraft).

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