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AfV HF Capabilities and NAT-D Frequency Utilization


Marin Yang
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Marin Yang
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We can all agree that AfV has been a major upgrade in realism, and we can see the locations of VHF ground stations on the AfV website. I am wondering, how is HF radio propagation and reception being simulated by AfV?

This came to my interest as I was flight planning for our groupflight event:

 

In real world, VHF remote communication outlets cannot cover all the airspaces of Edmonton and Anchorage. Therefore communications on polar routes are supplemented by Gander Radio on NAT-D frequencies. In particular the position reporting on the 141W Anchorage Arctic/Edmonton boundary has to be done thru Gander HF as it is so far away from any landmass.

Here I am talking in purely hypothetical terms, but then is it technically possible for AfV to support communications through Gander Radio in polar areas on VATSIM?

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Trevor Hannant
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Section 5.4 of the AFV Guide cover this - it uses VHF aliasing due to limitations with add-ons:

https://audio.vatsim.net/storage/AFV User Guide.pdf

Trevor Hannant

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