Pilots Help Please. ATIS 132.025 Do I drop the zero or five? Tower 119.875 Same Q&A?

Answer 1

Apparently no one above has tuned an aircraft radio recently. Mine is a typical one for today's environment and DOES NOT HAVE a digit for the six decimal place. So, for 119.875 I tune 119.87. Same for 132.025; drop the 5.

On the horizon: 8.333 Kc frequency spacing. This will mean 3 times as many channels as are currently available. Ex: 119.000, 119.0083, 119.0166, 119.025. When this one becomes mandatory, we'll all have different radios with the sixth decimal place available for selection!

Answer 2

Assuming I understand your question. You would like to know how to tune in a frequency of 132.025 or 119.875 on an aircraft radio?

First off, the typical procedure to tune into a frequency like the ones mentioned above is that on most nav radios, there is a little switch that may be labeled up/down, or switch for kHz. This switch basically tunes in the last 5kHz portion to get you on frequency. So, with the switch in the off position, you could tune something like: 132.02, 132.03, 132.04 and with the switch active, you could tune 132.015, 132.025, 132.035MHz.


So, to answer your question a different way, you do not drop any numbers from the listed frequency.

Answer 3

Drop 5

Answer 4

Dial in all 6 digits. If you have to, leave off the last number.

Answer 5

In the real world, you need to dial in all six digits.

In MS Flight Simulator, you can omit the last digit e.g. 123.02 or 119.87.

Answer 6

Steve is right.


Carpe Diem!

Answer 7

If you can't dial in all six digits, upgrade your avionics.

Answer 8

I think you give the whole frequency