IAmBroom 7 days ago

"Picking up" and "discerning useful data" are very different.

I'm not even talking about "deciphering". Even knowing that energy in a certain bandwidth means planes about to leave seems a large jump - and a radio tuned to a station is likely an order of magnitude more stringent than an animal's sensory abilities.

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kqr 7 days ago

Indeed. Not to mention that the frequency is probably used for many other types of communication than announcing the use of that specific taxiway.