NWCG - Initial Attack and Aircraft Dispatcher Job Aid - Jan 2025
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Peteri Szerlagi
Mar 8, 2025, 9:06:07 AM3/8/25
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" Frequency is not for local flight following " - THAT IS NEW for 2025
IMHO - last year we heard a tanker on "National" calling out his
return to ? San Bernardino ? on the fire at ?Castaic ? - so that would
have been totally against this new 2025 policy imho iirc ish sorta
maybe
Frequency Management Checklist
Frequency Management Checklist
☐ Order additional temporary emergency radio frequencies through the
GACC to the NICC.
☐ Use area-assigned very high frequency (VHF)-AM frequencies. ·
Airtanker base ramp frequency: 123.975 megahertz (MHz) ·
National Flight Following frequency: 168.6500 MHz o Frequency for
tracking shared national resources (e.g., airtankers, LPs,
helicopters) between geographic areas o Frequency is not for local
flight following ·
National Air Guard frequency: 168.6250 MHz o Frequency is for
emergency communication only. § Air-to-air emergency contact and
coordination § Ground-to-air emergency contact § Initial call, recall,
and redirection of aircraft when no other contact frequency is
available
from page 33 of 54 per Acrobat - or from - page 30 of 51 per the
bottom of the document page - OH DEAR GAWD NO !!!! - lets clear this
up right now - we are going to ignore the pages marked at the bottom
of the documents - we are going to use the pages listed at the top of
the document by Adobe (because that is what we have always done) - we
can only pray to GAWD that other pdf readers dont give different
results
https://fs-prod-nwcg.s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/jobaid/j-602.pdf?VersionId=L.qWUp_QNQ48lghIMQZr.xNFrns_rZQl
54 pages total
IMHO - last year we heard a tanker on "National" calling out his
return to ? San Bernardino ? on the fire at ?Castaic ? - so that would
have been totally against this new 2025 policy imho iirc ish sorta
maybe
Frequency Management Checklist
Frequency Management Checklist
☐ Order additional temporary emergency radio frequencies through the
GACC to the NICC.
☐ Use area-assigned very high frequency (VHF)-AM frequencies. ·
Airtanker base ramp frequency: 123.975 megahertz (MHz) ·
National Flight Following frequency: 168.6500 MHz o Frequency for
tracking shared national resources (e.g., airtankers, LPs,
helicopters) between geographic areas o Frequency is not for local
flight following ·
National Air Guard frequency: 168.6250 MHz o Frequency is for
emergency communication only. § Air-to-air emergency contact and
coordination § Ground-to-air emergency contact § Initial call, recall,
and redirection of aircraft when no other contact frequency is
available
from page 33 of 54 per Acrobat - or from - page 30 of 51 per the
bottom of the document page - OH DEAR GAWD NO !!!! - lets clear this
up right now - we are going to ignore the pages marked at the bottom
of the documents - we are going to use the pages listed at the top of
the document by Adobe (because that is what we have always done) - we
can only pray to GAWD that other pdf readers dont give different
results
https://fs-prod-nwcg.s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/jobaid/j-602.pdf?VersionId=L.qWUp_QNQ48lghIMQZr.xNFrns_rZQl
54 pages total
Peteri Szerlagi
Mar 8, 2025, 9:25:25 AM3/8/25
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do they mention ground engines at all in this document? apparently not
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pg 4 of 54 - number phonetics are all messed up - they should be
1 - won / wun - like - Wun Tu Mani - nice guy asian / italian mix
2 - too
3. three - ryhmes with tree BUT IS NOT tree
4 - fore
5 - five rhymes with hive like bee hive hairdoo
6 - sicks - not sex you weirdo
7 - sev hen
8 - ate
9 - nine rhymes with pine the TREE
10 - ten like X in Roman
zero - z ear oh - 3 syllables - Z EAR DOH - like - bee doh bee doh bee
doh bee doh
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pg 4 of 54 - number phonetics are all messed up - they should be
1 - won / wun - like - Wun Tu Mani - nice guy asian / italian mix
2 - too
3. three - ryhmes with tree BUT IS NOT tree
4 - fore
5 - five rhymes with hive like bee hive hairdoo
6 - sicks - not sex you weirdo
7 - sev hen
8 - ate
9 - nine rhymes with pine the TREE
10 - ten like X in Roman
zero - z ear oh - 3 syllables - Z EAR DOH - like - bee doh bee doh bee
doh bee doh
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