Quite a bit of traffic from Facebook in the last couple of days, wonder which expert recommended it?

After returning from Chofu Airport, I wanted to see if I could hear the Tower ATC from home. So I set up the antenna and listened for a while, only to find the signal was very poor. I couldn’t hear the Tower voice at all. I could hear the aircraft voices, but the noise was quite loud; slightly disappointed.

I wrote a simple note to record the communication I heard from a landing New Central Airway aircraft for future reference. P stands for Pilot, T stands for Tower.

P: Chofu Flight Service, Chuoh Air 302 (Chofu Airport has no control zone, nor ATC control, so the communication here uses the Flight Service call sign) T: … (Tower cannot be heard…) P: Chuoh Air 302, 2 miles south of Eda, 2300, request landing (Eda is an NDB, located about 7 nautical miles south of Chofu Airport)

T: ... P: Chuoh Air 302, request Runway 35 T: ... P: Chuoh Air 302, 3017, Runway 35, report Yomiuri (QNH 3017, the weather was poor with light rain, but the pressure was quite high. Yomiuri is an amusement park, serving as a reporting point) T: ... P: Flight Service, Chuoh Air 302, by Yomiuri T: ... P: Chuoh Air 302, Runway 35 is clear

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