Goto Section: 87.173 | 87.187 | Table of Contents
FCC 87.185
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 87.185 Scope of service.
(a) Aircraft stations must limit their communications to the necessities of
safe, efficient, and economic operation of aircraft and the protection of
life and property in the air, except as otherwise specifically provided in
this part. Contact with an aeronautical land station must only be attempted
when the aircraft is within the serivce area of the land station. however,
aircraft stations may transmit advisory information on air traffic control,
unicom or aeronautical multicom frequencies for the benefit and use of other
stations monitoring these frequencies in accordance with FAA recommended
traffic advisory practices.
(b) Aircraft public correspondence service must be made available to all
persons without discrimination and on reasonable demand, and must
communicate without discrimination with any public coast station or
mobile-satellite earth station authorized to provide aircraft public
correspondence service.
(c) Aircraft public correspondence service on maritime mobile frequencies
may only be carried by aircraft stations licensed to use maritime mobile
frequencies and must follow the rules for public correspondence in part 80.
(d) Aircraft public correspondence service on Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite
(R) Service frequencies may only be carried on aircraft earth stations
licensed to use Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite (R) frequencies and are
subject to the rules for public correspondence in this part. Aircraft public
correspondence service on Maritime Mobile-Satellite Service frequencies may
only be carried by aircraft earth stations licensed to use Maritime
Mobile-Satellite frequencies and are subject to the rules for public
correspondence in part 80.
[ 53 FR 28940 , Aug. 1, 1988, as amended at 57 FR 45750 , Oct. 5, 1992]
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Goto Section: 87.173 | 87.187
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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