Air Traffic

[choccy1]

I am totally new to this, and was just wondering if someone could point me in the right direction or recommend a radio receiver so i can hear aircraft talking to each other and traffic control.

Also is this legal or illegal?

Thanks

[Deadly]

I'm sure it's technically illegal, but even airports sell airband radios lol nobody really cares. Go along to any airport and around the perimeter you'll nearly always see people sitting in their cars watching the planes and listening to the air traffic control.

How much would you be looking to spend?

You can pick up manual tuning radios that cover airband for £10-20, but i'd really recommend a digital one so you can enter the exact frequencies directly and scan to look for them etc. You can get dedicated airband radios that purely cover the airband frequencies, or you could pick up a scanner that covers airband plus some other stuff. On ebay there's usually some good bargains to be had on scanners.

Depends what you want to spend?

[johamilton]

i got one from flightstore realy good quailty ,i can put all the airport freq,in around my area ,it then scans them all and you can hear all the pilots and traffic,

[choccy1]

Cheers for the info, I looked at flightstore, what do you reckon to this one:-
http://www.flightstore.co.uk/uniden_...419.dept_l3.0/

How do you find the frequencies for your local airport, mine is EMA?

Thanks for help with this.

[johamilton]

that looks ok to me m8,i got the freq,from my kneeboard,i have this as iam doing my ppl private pilots license,

[iBozz]

For EMA frequencies try:

Approach: 134.175 NFM
ATIS: 128.225 NFM
Ground: 121.9 NFM
Tower: 124.0 NFM

Check out http://www.plane-mad.com/guide_view.php?guide=ema

[Deadly]

Cheers for the info, I looked at flightstore, what do you reckon to this one:-
http://www.flightstore.co.uk/uniden_...419.dept_l3.0/

How do you find the frequencies for your local airport, mine is EMA?

Thanks for help with this.

Would be ideal m8. I'd also checkout scanners on ebay aswell though, for £60 you could pickup a radio that covers airband and alot more aswell.

Regarding frequencies, they're all widely available online.

[choccy1]

Thanks for the codes, I have ordered the radio, just awaiting delivery.

[Deadly]

Someone sellin the exact same radio on ebay for £30

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/UNIDEN-UBC30XL...QQcmdZViewItem

Ah well, let us know how you get on with it :-)