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Morse Code Training Requirement  
User currently offline60Victor From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 31 posts, RR: 0
Posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1257 times:

Being as ILS's, VOR's, Beacon's etc. Identify in Morse Code (CW).
Are Commercial Pilots required to know or learn it?

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User currently offlineTg 747-300 From Norway, joined Nov 1999, 1318 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1250 times:

From what I have been learned, the FAA does not require pilots to know Morse Code because you can just compare the depicted code [found on charts ] with the identifier you are hearing.

In JAA countries you are required to know morse code.

That means I have to learn morse code when returning to Europe  Wink


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User currently offlineWoodreau From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 890 posts, RR: 7
Reply 2, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1196 times:

Nope, but my flight instructor thought I was being a smarta$$ when I called out the letters as I was hearing the morse code...

It's not that hard to learn anyways.


Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from surviving bad judgement.
User currently offlineModesto2 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2629 posts, RR: 6
Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 22 hours ago) and read 1156 times:

I haven't been formally taught morse code. When identifying nav aids (like localizers), I just look at the approach plate and it's easy to figure out.

User currently offlineBuyantUkhaa From Mongolia, joined May 2004, 2778 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (7 years 8 months 7 hours ago) and read 1085 times:

To my knowledge, morse was officially abolished in 1999.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/269761.stm


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User currently offlineIakobos From Belgium, joined Aug 2003, 3304 posts, RR: 38
Reply 5, posted (7 years 8 months 5 hours ago) and read 1078 times:

Quoting BuyantUkhaa (Reply 4):
To my knowledge, morse was officially abolished in 1999

Not so. What has been dropped (at least in the UK and some other places) is the standby watch on (morse aka CW) maritime call and distress frequencies in the MF (500KHz) and HF bands.

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User currently offlineTom775257 From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2000, 153 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (7 years 8 months 3 hours ago) and read 1070 times:

Certainly I didn't have to learn morse for my European fATPL
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