The frequency value of 108.3 for the GEE VOR as shown on the FLOSI4 STAR is wrong. The first decimal digit (here the .3) being an odd number indicates a Localizer frequency. The frequency for GEE should be 108.2.
Al
Hello! Thank you for the feedback!
We shall forward this to our data provider. I’ll keep you posted!
Kind Regards,
Malte
Foreflight shows it as 108.2, Jepp FDPro shows it as 108.2, but yes the chart shows it as 108.3. But with a chart date of 2020, it might have been correct when the chart was first published. But there isn’t a corresponding Jepp Chart Change Notice though that defines that GEE went from 108.3 to 108.2.
Good catch.
Issue is also present on the SHAFF 7 chart 10-2D at KEWR.
I found e.g. 13-1 at 5G0 that has GEE at 108.2 already in 2018.
4d.pdf (2.3 MB)
This PDF above is used as the source for Wikipedia’s statement that:
LOC carrier frequencies range between 108.10 MHz and 111.95 MHz (with the 100 kHz first decimal digit always odd, so 108.10, 108.15, 108.30, etc., are LOC frequencies and are not used for any other purpose).[3]
While I cannot quickly find a statement in the document that unambiguously confirms the statement, the table in section 4.3.5 does suggest it to be correct, which would indeed make 108.300 invalid as a VOR frequency in the US? (I’ve seen such frequencies used for enroute DME elsewhere in the world)
Regards,
Tim
Hello everyone!
We have now received a response from Jeppesen. They confirm the issue for 10-2A1 and 10-2D and will update the frequency on both charts in a revision next month!
Thank you for the feedback!
Kind Regards,
Malte
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That’s awesome they’ll make the change. But how often have FS users driven a real world chart change? It potentially has been wrong since 2020, and the millions of crews that flew that procedure in the past 5 years never noticed.