![]() ![]() Quite honestly I always thought it was a fraction. That’s the least technical I can get with the break down of one through five identifiers and what they really mean. Contrary to what I used to believe, 5 by 5 is a term used to give the other person on the line a rating on the readability (the first number) of their voice, and their signal strength (the second number) of their frequency. Well like I have stated in previous articles, I am no audiophilebut even I can manage to give you a lamens spark notes version of what the term really means. What does this five by five talk really mean? Wherever you hear the term being used, the question still remains. Especially being located in Ohio, I find that there are many non-towered fields I fly to and making sure you know how well you can hear other pilots on unicom in the area is a constant task. You sometimes hear the term used when listening to controllers on LiveATC frequencies and most times I use it in real life when I’m in a questionable area during a flight that gets not as great of radio signals. I had always just assumed it was an aviation term without really digging into what it meant to tell the controller I heard him or her loud and clear. ![]() Yep, I was that kid.Īnyway, I got to thinking one day and questioned what 5 by 5 really meant when it came to radio communication. #5by5 radio simulator#Literally, I used a big headset and a Toshiba laptop with all the desk flight simulator equipment around me. Actually, you would be surprised how much static can happen with poor old computer headsets (before the dawn of Apple ear buds)… the only time I have felt even remotely old on this blog. It was fun as a teenager being able to pretend to be in mission critical moments of flight and have to make sure communication over the virtual radios were still working. I can remember the days when I used to play on Microsoft Flight Simulator just so I could connect to Vatsim so I could tell all the virtual air traffic controllers I heard them five by five on the radio transmissions. ![]()
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