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DVA2411
First Officer, B777-200
Joined on June 22 2005
Everett 250 Club
Eurocap Club
Six Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"Semper Volans"
Clayton, NC
677 legs, 1,841.6 hours
92 legs,
203.6 hours online
605 legs,
1,686.9 hours ACARS
6 legs,
22.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 23 2005 15:33 ET by John Richardson
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Can anyone tell me what the SELCAL codes and how you use them?
John RichardsonFirst Officer, B777-200
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DVA1763
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on June 29 2004
Everett 250 Club
Online Six Century Club
Seven Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Oklahoma City, OK
723 legs, 2,015.0 hours
645 legs,
1,824.0 hours online
585 legs,
1,608.7 hours ACARS
10 legs,
44.8 hours event
740 legs, 2,044.9 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
December 23 2005 15:40 ET by Steve Pickle
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SELCAL codes are what ATC uses to contact you if you are not responding. They use them a lot on HF frequencies. You can use one online by putting it in the box where you log in. Be sure not to use the - though.
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DVA2448
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on July 05 2005
Online Century Club
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Everett Century Club
Spring Lake, MI
343 legs, 971.5 hours
173 legs,
431.4 hours online
300 legs,
812.3 hours ACARS
7 legs,
36.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 23 2005 16:43 ET by Tim Fox
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I'll take a shot at giving you a good example of the SELCAL code usage:
Say you are flying on one of the NAT (Notrh Atlantic Track) routes from New York to Paris. This is a long flight, and most of the time you will have to have the squelch of your radios set so that you can hear ATC (who are hard to hear out there due to the range you are from their stations), which is very annoying. When ATC wants to get ahold of you, they call you using the code, and it rings a tone in the cockpit that alerts you to their attempt at contacting you. This allows you to fly those long distances on the fringe of radio range without having to have all that static pumping through your headphones for hours on end.
Hope this help.
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DVA2411
First Officer, B777-200
Joined on June 22 2005
Everett 250 Club
Eurocap Club
Six Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"Semper Volans"
Clayton, NC
677 legs, 1,841.6 hours
92 legs,
203.6 hours online
605 legs,
1,686.9 hours ACARS
6 legs,
22.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 24 2005 00:45 ET by John Richardson
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Great responses guys! Thanks!
John RichardsonFirst Officer, B777-200
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AFV003
Senior Captain, B737-800
Joined on May 03 2002
GVA 10 Year Anniversary
Century Club
"Oh yeah, NOTAM #19 is a must!"
Indianapolis, IN
144 legs, 376.9 hours
59 legs,
129.5 hours online
121 legs,
328.9 hours ACARS
8 legs,
27.8 hours event
276 legs, 632.7 hours total
27 legs dispatched, 38.6
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 24 2005 03:04 ET by Caitlyn Champlin
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Additionally, SELCAL is simply short for Selective Calling. Airlines began using them to decrease the amount of radio traffic on company frequencies. With the introduction of SELCAL, each aircraft was able to have a unique code and if an airline had to get a message to a particular aircraft, it could call it up by selcting the appropriate code, which would send an aural tone to the flight crew and they would then monitor the radio for the message. Things have changed a bit since then with FMC and MCDU systems. Airline operations centres can still call a particular aircraft using the code, but the message is sent and displayed as text on the FMC. As Steve said, its normally used on HF but is capable of operating on VHF frequencies as well.
Caitlyn ChamplinSenior Captain, B737-800
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DVA1892
Senior Captain, MD-11
Joined on September 13 2004
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Eurocap Club
Online Triple Century Club
White Pearl Accomplishment
Quatercentenary Club
Everett Century Club
"Fly Douglas Jets!"
Buenos Aires AR
460 legs, 1,384.1 hours
336 legs,
1,086.5 hours online
271 legs,
726.6 hours ACARS
12 legs,
24.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 24 2005 13:25 ET by Gaston Doval
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If you want to find out about different selcal codes for the Delta planes or AF ships...
http://www.jetphotos.net/census
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DVA1855
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on August 28 2004
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Kangaroo Club
Online Century Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Fleet Master
"Life Begins @ Vmc Life Ends @ Vne+1"
Philadelphia, PA
436 legs, 1,824.8 hours
113 legs,
445.8 hours online
297 legs,
1,208.2 hours ACARS
9 legs,
47.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 24 2005 16:51 ET by Andrew Rogers
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or you could use the dva pilot center list i think i got all of them in there 
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DVA2728
Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on December 04 2005
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Tri-Jet Double Centruy CLub
Million Mile Club
"Exceeding the standard."
March Air Reserve Base, CA
343 legs, 2,038.9 hours
317 legs,
1,833.0 hours online
292 legs,
1,778.6 hours ACARS
6 legs,
27.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 25 2005 16:25 ET by Shane Olguin
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What is the application of a SELCAL code for our online flying here at DVA? I reserved a SELCAL code but how does it do anything for us? Does it show up in ACARS or something?
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DVA2482
Chief Pilot, B777-200
Joined on July 16 2005
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Everett Millennium Club
Six Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"Master of Gravity"
Boston, MA USA
1,909 legs, 11,955.3 hours
228 legs,
1,400.0 hours online
1,752 legs,
11,085.1 hours ACARS
7 legs,
57.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 25 2005 20:57 ET by Oliver McRae
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no you will use it on VATSIM, The system w have here is just to try to ensure that no 2 pilots use the same SELCAL.
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