Air Traffic Control Question

I’ve done it about 9 or 10 times since it started. It’s too long a trip for my liking (9 days).

I have just landed 5 hours ago from a 12 hour return from Tokyo so I’m probably fairly well qualified to nswer your question! My flight involved approximately 8 hours in Russian airspace, all of which these days is conducted via VHF communication. Most of the western parts of Russia (and the first few hundred miles past Vladivostok heading westbound) are conducted with radar coverage however the middle part is still largely procedural with position reporting conducted in the same way as you would if you were non-CPDLC mid atlantic on HF or in Africa.

Do you ever get the Sydney run???

…and the reg was G-VSHY.

As wys is VS 340 flight crew, I very much doubt he was on BA8… 😉

Thanks for the info, was it VS901 or BA8 you were on and what was your aircraft reg?

Nick 🙂

I have just landed 5 hours ago from a 12 hour return from Tokyo so I’m probably fairly well qualified to nswer your question! My flight involved approximately 8 hours in Russian airspace, all of which these days is conducted via VHF communication. Most of the western parts of Russia (and the first few hundred miles past Vladivostok heading westbound) are conducted with radar coverage however the middle part is still largely procedural with position reporting conducted in the same way as you would if you were non-CPDLC mid atlantic on HF or in Africa.

I’m no expert on ATC in those countries, but I’d imagine there are vast swathes of airspace that have no radar or VHF cover, so are treated exactly the same as oceanic airspace; position reports via HF.