Dave Luff wrote: > So supposing a pilot is communicating with approach on comm1, but has > comm2 monitoring the tower, what happens if a stronger tower > transmission is received at the same time as an approach transmission?
It doesn't have anything to do with signal strength. The two radios receive the signals independently and provide a plain analog audio output to the panel, which is essentially a mixer. > Will the audio panel loose it, or play them in sequence? It certainly won't play them in sequence -- this is analog electronics we're talking about here. :) In the one installation I've seen, they simply get mixed together and played simultaneously. > And would a pilot actually set his radios up like that, or simply > have the tower frequency in comm1 standby ready to switch over? It's quite common with the folks I've flown with to have ATC on one channel while listening to ATIS on another. As for switching between frequencies under ATC control, my guess is that most people simply use the standby toggle. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
