AlphaFive
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246.8000 overnight on 01/10/19. A clear conversation between a pilot (Charlie 3), and a female who was acting in the role of an air traffic controller. Although her transmissions appeared to be from a second aircraft.
Charlie 3 - Let's dim the lights in the overpass area.
Charlie 3 - Come pick us up, if we can escort them, it will be turn by turn. Getting ready to throw these radios in the trash.
Female controller - Light to moderate traffic, no obstructions seen at this time. She then proceeds to give the pilot road directions. Beginning in South Carolina, coming up Interstate 26 into North Carolina, then into Morganton North Carolina, to a specific road by name that leads into the Foothills Regional Airport KMRN.
There were many garbled transmissions that I could not decipher. One sounded as if Charlie 3 said "Charlie 3 to Memphis"?? Makes no sense, Memphis ARTCC is too far from me. The female controller did not appear to be a ground transmitter, I could not receive that from Morganton. Her transmissions were loud and clear. Why would an aircraft such as Charlie 3's be guided to the Foothills Regional Airport? Was this a training exercise? Or was his navigation system out? Were they using an AM radio system and not in the air? I can only locate a few documented uses for 246.8000, Maryland N.G., West Point, and a few hits out of Mayport Jax. Does this sound familiar?
Charlie 3 - Let's dim the lights in the overpass area.
Charlie 3 - Come pick us up, if we can escort them, it will be turn by turn. Getting ready to throw these radios in the trash.
Female controller - Light to moderate traffic, no obstructions seen at this time. She then proceeds to give the pilot road directions. Beginning in South Carolina, coming up Interstate 26 into North Carolina, then into Morganton North Carolina, to a specific road by name that leads into the Foothills Regional Airport KMRN.
There were many garbled transmissions that I could not decipher. One sounded as if Charlie 3 said "Charlie 3 to Memphis"?? Makes no sense, Memphis ARTCC is too far from me. The female controller did not appear to be a ground transmitter, I could not receive that from Morganton. Her transmissions were loud and clear. Why would an aircraft such as Charlie 3's be guided to the Foothills Regional Airport? Was this a training exercise? Or was his navigation system out? Were they using an AM radio system and not in the air? I can only locate a few documented uses for 246.8000, Maryland N.G., West Point, and a few hits out of Mayport Jax. Does this sound familiar?