AIM

4/3/14

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Services Available to Pilots

FIG 4

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Hazardous Area Reporting Service

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21. Hazardous Area Reporting Service

a.

Selected FSSs provide flight monitoring where

regularly traveled VFR routes cross large bodies of

water, swamps, and mountains. This service is

provided for the purpose of expeditiously alerting

Search and Rescue facilities when required.  

(See FIG 4−1−3.)

1.

When requesting the service either in person,

by telephone or by radio, pilots should be prepared to

give the following information: type of aircraft,

altitude, indicated airspeed, present position, route of

flight, heading.

2.

Radio contacts are desired at least every

10 minutes. If contact is lost for more than

15 minutes, Search and Rescue will be alerted. Pilots

are responsible for canceling their request for service

when they are outside the service area boundary.

Pilots experiencing two-way radio failure are

expected to land as soon as practicable and cancel

their request for the service. FIG 4−1−3 depicts the

areas and the FSS facilities involved in this program.

b. Long Island Sound Reporting Service.

New York and Bridgeport FSS Radio Sectors

provide Long Island Sound Reporting service on

request for aircraft traversing Long Island Sound.

1.

When requesting the service, pilots should

ask for SOUND REPORTING SERVICE and should

be prepared to provide the following appropriate

information:

(a)

Type and color of aircraft;

(b)

The specific route and altitude across the

sound including the shore crossing point;

(c)

The overwater crossing time;

(d)

Number of persons on board; and

(e)

True air speed.