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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Re: No favoritism in Washington Center
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Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 11:33:40 EST
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> What I'm not sure I believe about
> > From the January _Flying_, in Dick Collins's column:
> > 	Heard over the Washington Center frequency, 125.45, on
> > 	11 September:
> > 		- "Washington Center, Air Force One, requesting
> > 		  lower."  ...
> is:  what is Air Force 1 doing on VHF?

	Why not?  Washington Center is an FAA *civilian* air traffic control
operation.  While Washington Center no doubt monitors 243.0 and has other UHF
capability, it is common for military *transport* craft - which have the same
speed and altitude range of civilian craft - to use VHF so that other civilian
aircraft can know what's going on in their airspace.

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