Thread: What's the deal on Guard?
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Old 01-16-2016 | 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Scoop
This problem is only now reaching epidemic proportions and we have had guard for over 50 years - ask yourselves why?
It might also have something to do with ACARS. At my (regional) airline, Comm 2 used to always be on company frequency--when we got ACARS six or seven years ago, we switched Comm 2 to Guard and the number of pilot on 121.5 went up a by a few thousand overnight.
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