Yet Another Live Air Traffic Radar Website!

Just a quick message to mention another great live air traffic radar website which I missed out in my earlier post: www.heathrow-london.co.uk (it doesn't just cover Heathrow!).

Pilots, Flying and Laser Pens!

Just last night, I picked up an aircraft inbound to Leeds Bradford working Scottish Air Traffic Control and the pilot was reporting being 'dazzled' by a laser. This seems to be an ongoing problem for pilots and I'm not sure what the answer is as they are so freely available.

I know from my own experience of night flying as a private pilot, it's essential things are kept as dark as possible in the cockpit so that the pilots can easily read the faint glow of the instruments inside the cockpit but also, they're eyes are suitably adjusted to still see out of the cockpit for any traffic etc. When a bright laser is pointed in a pilots direction it can cause temporary 'blindness' that could prove very dangerous.

Signal R535 VHF/UHF Aircraft Band Receiver

One of our readers recently asked where to get hold of one of these great airband radio scanners (besides Ebay!). I'm afraid I can't answer that question as Ebay would probably be about the only option now as they do come up for sale once in a while.

I have personally owned one of these on two different occasions now. The reception and sensitivity of this radio scanner for airband listening is well known, however, it is 20+ years old now and I honestly believe scanners such as the Yupiteru 7100 and my own current receiver, a Uniden Bearcat 3500XLT are very close if not equal to the performance of this radio.

The only limiting factor that caused me to sell mine was the fact that it had just 60 memory channels in a single memory bank. For me, this just isn't enough anymore. Do any of our readers still own this great radio? do you find 60 memory channels is enough? Please let us know.