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When you are flying and you have only VHF radio equipment, what frequency will you use to receive VOLMET information?

  • A

    5505 kHz.

  • B

    120.8 MHz.

  • C

    112.8 MHz.

  • D

    6676 kHz.

VOLMET. Meteorological information for aircraft in-flight. Provision, as appropriate, of current METAR, SPECI, TAF and SIGMET by means of continuous and repetitive voice broadcasts. VOLMET is available on VHF and HF frequencies, where VHF-VOLMET covers regional areas and HF- VOLMET covers international areas. In this scenario, since we only have VHF radio equipment, we need to listen to the VHF-VOLMET frequency to receive meteorological information.

VHF-VOLMET transmits between 118 - 136.975 MHz which is the band used for Aviation Mobile Service voice communication.

FREQUENCY BANDFREQUENCIESWAVE BANDWAVE LENGTH
VLF - Very Low Frequency3 – 30 kHzVery Long100 km – 10 km
LF – Low Frequency30 – 300 kHzLong10 km – 1 km
MF – Medium Frequency300 – 3000 kHzMedium1 km – 100 m
HF – High Frequency3 – 30 MHzShort100 m – 10 m
VHF – Very High Frequency30 – 300 MHzShort10 m – 1 m
UHF – Ultra High Frequency300 – 3000 MHzUltra Short1 m - 10 cm
SHF – Super High Frequency3 – 30 GHz
(3000 – 30 000 MHz)
Super Short10 cm – 1 cm
EHF – Extremely High Frequency30 – 300 GHzExtremely Short1 cm – 1 mm

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