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No matter what your level of piloting
experience, you owe it to yourself and your passengers to keep your effectiveness as a pilot at its
maximum by keeping yourself focused on the real issues involved in flight. Playing chart folding games
or flipping through a book inflight to find an airport or navaid frequency helps nobody--this is
especially true if you are flying in unfamiliar or complicated airspace, such as the NYC class B
where we often fly*. However, from your first cross countries as a student pilot, you know that jotting
down all the frequencies potentially needed for a flight while potentially effective, can be a time-consuming
and error-prone process.
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Support Notice: as
of May 31, 2000, FreqSheet will no longer be supported by Dauntless Software.
You can still purchase the software or get a registration code for it
as part of our GroundSchool FAA test Promotion, but we can no longer provide
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you have recieved a registration code to FreqSheet and want to enter it
into the software, click on the airplane icon at the top right of the
introductory screen. |
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Enter FreqSheet..
FreqSheet is a software utility that automates the task of creating frequency
"cheat sheets" before a flight. You enter the airport and navaid identifiers that concern you,
and out from the printer comes a handy page that you can quickly reference in flight.
Now, you might be concerned: after all, frequencies change. Here's where the clever part
comes in--no airport or navaid frequency information is shipped with FreqSheet. Instead, after you
enter your requested information, it goes out onto the Internet to retrieve your data from a site
that updates its information generally every 56 days, coincident with the ICAO dates for aeronautical
information updates. Does this mean the
information will always be accurate? Probably
not--indeed, we stress highly that FreqSheet should not be used as a primary flight planning device and that all information
gotten through FreqSheet should be verified with an authoritative source before flight. But in practice, the information is
generally up to date, and FreqSheet in effect is a very useful utility--and you can always pencil in a correction or two on
the sheet itself should the need arise. The forms printed by FreqSheet
both help to
decrease pilot workload and have benefits that might not be immediately apparent--such as when flying with
passengers, it's possible to get them involved and interested in general aviation by asking them to read
frequencies for you from the sheet while in flight.
If this sounds like something you are interested in, please download
FreqSheet today.
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If you have trouble
installing this software, click here
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FreqSheet - A nifty program that decreases pilot workload both before and during
flight by automating the task of
creating airport and navaid frequency 'cheat sheets.'
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Chicago O'Hare, Illinois |
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* consider our flight that involved both a little sightseeing and dropping off a
friend at MMU: HVN ATIS, HVN GND, HVN TWR, BDR ATIS, BDR TWR, Hudson TFC, East TFC, LGA ATIS, LGA TWR, TEB ATIS, TEB TWR, CDW
TWR, MMU ATIS, MMU TWR, MMU GND, MMU ATIS, MMU GND, MMU TWR, EWR ATIS, EWR TWR, JFK TWR (for FF), FRG ATIS, FRG TWR, ISP APC
(for FF), HVN ATIS, HVN TWR, HVN GND. Total engine time: like 1.9.
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