NWCG - Initial Attack and Aircraft Dispatcher Job Aid - Jan 2025

" Frequency is not for local flight following " - THAT IS NEW for 2025
IMHO - last year we heard a tanker on "National" calling out his
return to ? San Bernardino ? on the fire at ?Castaic ? - so that would
have been totally against this new 2025 policy imho iirc ish sorta
maybe


Frequency Management Checklist

Frequency Management Checklist

☐ Order additional temporary emergency radio frequencies through the
GACC to the NICC.

☐ Use area-assigned very high frequency (VHF)-AM frequencies. ·

Airtanker base ramp frequency: 123.975 megahertz (MHz) ·

National Flight Following frequency: 168.6500 MHz o Frequency for
tracking shared national resources (e.g., airtankers, LPs,
helicopters) between geographic areas o Frequency is not for local
flight following ·

National Air Guard frequency: 168.6250 MHz o Frequency is for
emergency communication only. § Air-to-air emergency contact and
coordination § Ground-to-air emergency contact § Initial call, recall,
and redirection of aircraft when no other contact frequency is
available

from page 33 of 54 per Acrobat - or from - page 30 of 51 per the
bottom of the document page - OH DEAR GAWD NO !!!! - lets clear this
up right now - we are going to ignore the pages marked at the bottom
of the documents - we are going to use the pages listed at the top of
the document by Adobe (because that is what we have always done) - we
can only pray to GAWD that other pdf readers dont give different
results

https://fs-prod-nwcg.s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/jobaid/j-602.pdf?VersionId=L.qWUp_QNQ48lghIMQZr.xNFrns_rZQl

54 pages total