<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1616230, February 2019

Air carrier flight crew reported the inability to transmit or receive via HF communications during an oceanic crossing.

Attributes
ACN	1616230
Time
Date	201902
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Oceanic
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	HF SSB
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 113 Flight Crew Total 9388 Flight Crew Type 105
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Type 933
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

We had a very difficult time communicating on our HF radios during our hawaii crossing. Not only was it frustrating but very distracting. Being new to the aircraft it got me thinking what it would have been like to communicate anything in an emergency situation in the middle of the pacific. The radios worked but we just spent a lot of time changing frequencies and trying to hear what oak and hnl radio was trying to say. The frustrating part is the technology is out there in cpdlc and we don't have it. Just hope we never have a major problem in this airplane out over the pacific.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported the inability to transmit or receive via HF communications during an oceanic crossing.

Narrative: We had a very difficult time communicating on our HF radios during our Hawaii crossing. Not only was it frustrating but very distracting. Being new to the aircraft it got me thinking what it would have been like to communicate anything in an emergency situation in the middle of the Pacific. The radios worked but we just spent a lot of time changing frequencies and trying to hear what OAK and HNL Radio was trying to say. The frustrating part is the technology is out there in CPDLC and we don't have it. Just hope we never have a major problem in this airplane out over the pacific.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.